Tag: Farmers
Why farmers are dumping milk down the drain and letting produce...
Elizabeth Ransom, Pennsylvania State University; E. Melanie DuPuis, Pace University , and Michelle R. Worosz, Auburn University
Many Americans may be surprised and confused to...
Why California is banning chlorpyrifos, a widely-used pesticide: 5 questions answered
Gina Solomon, University of California, San Francisco
Editor’s note: California, the top U.S. food-producing state, is ending use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental...
Monsanto wins $7.7b lawsuit in Brazil – but farmers’ fight to...
Karine Eliane Peschard, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of Monsanto,...
US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal
Maywa Montenegro, University of California, Davis; Annie Shattuck, University of California, Berkeley, and Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University
These are difficult times in farm country....
How soybeans became China’s most powerful weapon in Trump’s trade war
Ian Sheldon, The Ohio State University
Soybeans may not seem all that useful in a war. Nonetheless they’ve become China’s most important weapon in its...
The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
Jim Ippolito, Colorado State University and Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State University
As devastating images of the 2019 Midwest floods fade from view, an insidious and...
American farmers want trade partners not handouts – an agricultural economist...
Amanda M. Countryman, Colorado State University
The Trump administration plans to give American farmers and ranchers hurt by the current trade war US$12 billion in...
Farmers and cropdusting pilots on the Great Plains worried about pesticide...
David Vail, University of Nebraska – Kearney
It is easy to frame conservation as a clash between environmentalists and polluters. But this view can greatly...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
