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Thanks to a lot of hard bipartisan effort leading to agreement and comprise, the 2014 Farm Bill is now on the books

President Obama is at a crossroads on his energy legacy

Wheat remains both the most overlooked commodity produced in the US and, at the same time, the staff of life

Conservation farming put first things first by attending to the needs of the soil—by seeing to it that the starting-off place, the base, is put into sound health and kept that way.

I’m a conservationist because I learned from my father that stewardship is a sacred duty for landowners.

USDA and the entire agriculture community rely on Farm Bills as the central pillar of political activity

A change of tactics in the policy arena may just be in time for the holiday season. Looks like a bi-partisan farm bill is about to get done in January 2014 and a bi-partisan two-year budget deal was announced last week for consideration and passed the House. Given the last 3 years of confrontation,

Can we really feed more than 9.5 billion people expected to share planet Earth in 2050? I believe we can, but only if we prepare now by maximizing productivity. Sustainable intensification is the way to do that

We need help in identifying the best place to put our resources: Can we get a better return by improving our best land or our less productive acreage?

The food stamp program, currently called SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) has exploded in size and may now be the biggest hurdle to a farm bill.