A person with an empty stomach will do whatever it takes to put something into it. Where there are immediate hunger pains, long-term consequences seem insignificant. Desperation is ripe, and violence is not far off. Agriculture then — the ability to grow and deliver food to all — is a matter of...
“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries,” said 20th century American financier, statesman and four-decade Presidential adviser Bernard Baruch . “The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We...
A growing number of people in Iowa agriculture agree: It’s time to think “outside the box.” More specifically, it’s time to think circularly. Ray Gaesser, a corn and soybean farmer in Corning, Iowa, and co-chair of Iowa Smart Agriculture, along with co-chairs Bryan Sievers and Kellie Blair, is...
An Agricultural Renaissance, led by innovative and entrepreneurial farmers, ranchers and foresters constructing sustainable, profitable and resilient systems that lay the foundation for a world of abundance on many scales capable of producing nutritious food, feed, fiber, clean energy, healthy ecosystems, quality livelihoods, and strong rural economies.