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Earlier this spring the FBI and USDA warned growers with a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to be more aware and wary about the security of their farm data. While I wholeheartedly encourage data education and awareness among growers, I am concerned about attitudes of worry and m

More than a decade ago, Congress created the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand the nation@s renewable fuels sector while reducing reliance on imported oil.

An opinion piece published recently on AgriPulse (2018 Farm Bill - Soil Health) outlined the importance of the growing interest in improving the health of the nationðs agricultural soils. I want to build upon the articleðs points and highlight a few of the s

Science and technology are on a roll. High impact discoveries seem to be advancing at an increasing rate, at times outstripping our knowledge and sending scientists scurrying to investigate the potential impact of these new developments on how we live, the foods we grow and eat, an

On May 19, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry & Nutrition took the Farm Credit System to task for its history of unacceptable business practices, only six months after the House Committee on Agriculture did the same. It had been some years since the Hous

A highly curious statement was made at last week`s U.S. Senate hearing on the Farm Credit System. Leonard Wolfe, the CEO of a community bank in Kansas and one of the bank lobby`s chief spokesmen on farm lending issues, denied in testimony to Congress that the banking in

The 2014 Farm Bill was nearly four years and more than 40 public hearings in the making. It was a long process that tested farmers patience and gave professional critics on both sides of the aisle ample opportunity to unfairly characterize the men and women who put food on our

Earlier this week, agricultural leaders and scholars gathered at the Nebraska Innovation Campus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the seventh annual Water for Food Global Conference to catalyze strategies in support of feeding the world with a finite amount of water.

Stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, the Colorado River extends 1,400 miles across seven states and Mexico (or should when it isn`t running dry). Nearly 40 million Americans rely on the Colorado River system for drinking water and to support liveli

In his March 17 op-ed, Rural Broadband: A Key To The Success of U.S. Agriculture, CoBank CEO Robert B. Engels proposal to increase rural broadband access poses an interesting question: who should finance the companies that are able to provide that acc