Agribusiness
Wisconsin leads the nation in farm bankruptcies. This area has the most.
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Wisconsin had had the most farmers file for Chapter 12, or farm, bankruptcy in recent years. But one area has a particularly high concentration of filings.
#agalerts
#AgAlerts: Climate change; pollinators; news deserts; meth; hemp
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“We are watching these young farmers, beginning farmers, stemming the tide. After watching the drain of our young people leaving agriculture, this is the first sign we’ve had in quite some time—hemp is bringing people back to farming.”
#agalerts
#AgAlerts: Iowa grain seller sentenced in organic fraud case; banned pesticide found in California’s forest; solving climate change through farming
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A roundup of news, reports, and research on agribusiness and related issues. KFC to hold US trial of vegan ‘chicken’ nuggets | TheGuardian.com
KFC says their vegan chicken nuggets are a "Kentucky fried miracle." Give peas a chance? Warren and Sanders think this farm policy will help rural America rebound. Does it stand a chance?
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, GateHouse Media announce agriculture data journalism fellowship
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GateHouse Media, LLC and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting are excited to embark on a new partnership through the creation of an agriculture data journalism fellowship funded by GateHouse.
Opinion
Opinion: Court gets it right in striking down Iowa ag-gag law
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At some farming operation in Iowa animal activists may legally be running an undercover sting operation to reveal inhuman treatment of animals. That's because last month the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, and senior Judge James Gritzner, threw out a 2012 Iowa law that made it a crime for people to gain access to agricultural facilities by “false pretense.”
Food for thought
Opinion: Is half a loaf of bread better than none?
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Many of my blog posts notwithstanding I root for big-agriculture. I want them to succeed. At heart, I am a pragmatist that realizes big ag must be part of any solution to feed the world's growing population. But having said that there are specific things I believe big ag must do as part of its corporate identity.
Agribusiness
Timeline: U.S.-China trade war
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The United States has been in a trade war with China over the last several months, swapping import tariffs worth billions of dollars stemming from U.S. investigations into China's trade practices including “technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation.” This timeline shows how we got here.
Environment
When Being A Family Farm Doesn’t Mean Squat In The Government’s Eyes
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture sets an industry definition for family farms. But that definition doesn’t take acreage size into consideration and can include operations where the family may not own the land, or even farm it. It defines what a family farm is for a consistent technical term in research and policy, which includes farm subsidies.
Climate Change
Report: Yes, humans are primarily responsible for climate change and farming plays a big role
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Increased drought, unsustainable irrigation and changing crop patterns are among the impacts that the agriculture sector will confront as the climate changes, according to a draft federal climate report obtained by The New York Times on Monday.
GMOs
From yield protection to yield boosting: GMO crops of the future
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Since 2000, the percentage of genetically engineered corn planted in the United States has grown from 25 percent to 92 percent in 2016. But unless yields increase significantly, experts say the world will not be able to grow enough food to feed itself by 2050, with food shortages anticipated as soon as 2030.