Well, Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain, let’s hear it.
Let’s hear your spiels for turning the U.S. economy around.

Last week, the Bureau of Land Management announced it was exploring options to decrease the number of wild horses and burros in the nation’s free-roaming herds. Those herd sizes can double about every four years, so it’s obvious that management is essential.
As of June 2008, the agency has more than 30,000 wild horses in short- […]

Like most dairy farmers, Larry Stahl wears many hats: mechanic, nutritionist, vet, animal scientist, agronomist. As a Coshocton County commissioner, he also has another set of hats: negotiator, accountant, judge, CEO, public servant.
Sometimes the two jobs pull him in different directions with competing demands. But in June, he combined the two to offer a special […]

China is a Calculating Giant, assessing its options, positioning itself for continued dominance — particularly on the world food scene.

World food security. Climate change. Bioenergy. Oil prices.
There are some weighty issues on agriculture’s table right now. Will we be up to the challenge — and to the responsibility?
Last week, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization Conference met in Rome. High level diplomats from around the world debated the issues surrounding food security worldwide.
The […]

Hunger, poverty and insecurity are at the core of global instability, but a 2008 World Bank report identified agriculture as the primary driver to abate hunger and reduce poverty.

The battle to lift the ban on interstate shipments of state-inspected meat and poultry is almost over.

In the 1980s, the one-hit-wonder band Rockwell rocked the charts with the song, [I Always Feel Like] Somebody’s Watching Me. Turns out the band was right.

What you never read in the mainstream press.

What would happen in farms adopted PepsiCo’s strategy of “performance with purpose?”