A farm is a great teacher. Like so many rural kids, my education was augmented and illustrated on my family’s farm in western Nebraska.

Imagine the backlash the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would get if it dragged its regulatory heels on approving the process of editing the human genome to cure colon cancer by insisting that edits be approved separately for each race, nationality and other arbitrary group of people.

It was the fall of 1928 when 33 boys from 18 states convened during the American Royal livestock show in Kansas City with an idea. They created what was known as the Future Farmers of America.

As we look to the future of agriculture, manufacturing, small business, education, and healthcare, we see a common thread: every advance requires robust Internet connectivity.

George Washington was more than "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." How about "first in farming"?

The new year marks the start of a California law that is good news for the dairy community and public health, while providing a model for nutrition-related policy and education that could benefit many in agriculture.

Even with the passage of the new farm bill, the potential for reasonable increases in farm income seems not yet to appear on the economic horizon.

For some time now on the question of trade, all we have focused on is our trade war with China.