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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.

On Monday, October 28, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and Congressman Hal Rogers, Chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, traveled to Hazard Community and Technical College, deep in the eastern Kentucky mountains, to announce a major new initiative they are co-sponsoring—the Shaping O

A few weeks ago, I was asked to make a presentation on “20 Practical Ways to Access Capital” at the Iowa Immigrant Entrepreneurs Summit in Des Moines.

Cardinal Turkson directly addressed the controversy surrounding biotechnology and genetic modification in the production of food using Catholic thought and Vatican II as his reference points.

Good news—the farm bill is moving once again. We have conferees named, and this week they will meet to begin reconciling the House and Senate versions of the legislation

I don’t ever recall seeing six former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture together on a land grant university stage

Their poll found nearly 80% of Americans believe we are headed in the wrong direction—a watershed number for this poll, not seen since the Watergate crisis in the Nixon Administration.