During a Feb. 1 Congressional hearing meant to address the 2023 Farm Bill, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) put a spotlight on the labor crisis faced by American farmers. In the session, Bennet called the protracted shortage of U.S. farm workers a “massive crisis.” “If we don’t have the labor to get these crops in, we’re going…
Legislator Calls US Farm Labor Shortage a ‘Massive Crisis’ That Will Have Serious Economic Consequences
Mail-Order Citrus: Pearson Ranch Delivers California Sunshine From Orchard to Doorstep
The fruit in my hand is 6 months old, but tastier than ever. It’s a pink pomelo from Pearson Ranch in California, and the big orb’s fabulously thick rind—an inch or more—is better at preserving the integrity and flavor of the fruit than anything human invention can muster. Most commodity fruits these days are picked…
Painting ‘Zebra Stripes’ on Cows Wards Off Biting Flies
Ranchers might want to consider painting “zebra stripes” on their livestock. According to a new study published in PLoS ONE, the measure reduces the number of biting flies on cows by more than half. Biting flies are one of the great banes of cows worldwide. The irritating insects cause cows to graze less, eat less, sleep…
Fluffy Sheep Have Their Fleece Sheared Off on a Spring Day
It’s so satisfying to see the wool come off almost in one go. Very professional! (Video courtesy of Eduard Schwan) …
Historian Victor Davis Hanson on the Farmer’s Virtues
It’s nearly a 200-mile commute home for historian Victor Davis Hanson from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he travels once a week, to his quiet family farm in the fertile Central Valley of California. As a classicist, he’s at ease with the ancient world but often brings a historian’s insightful perspective to current…
UK Farming Union Boss Says All Sectors Are in an ‘Extraordinary Situation’
UK politicians have been told that farmers “have never witnessed anything like this at any time in living memory” and that food and drink prices are to rise higher than previously expected. At a hearing on food security at the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Committee on Wednesday, politicians were warned by a farming boss…
Can Organic Farming Feed the World?
November 4, 2022
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Commentary Synthetic, or “chemical,” nitrogen fertilizers are bad for the environment, but “organic” fertilizers are good… Right? Well, not exactly. Oversimplified thinking like this has more to do with environmental ideology than environmental science, and can have disastrous effects when implemented as policy. Sri Lanka: A Cautionary Fail Nowhere has this been more poignant in…
Soil in Danger: How Fixing Agricultural Soil Could Help the World
October 24, 2022
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Agricultural soil is an important resource for communities all over the world, not only because it provides humans with the majority of their food but because it also plays a major role in balancing the environment. Soil researchers have said investing in soil could help the world tap into an untold resource against environmental challenges…
How Pesticides and Herbicides Affect Farmers
In the past few decades, thousands of studies have revealed the negative consequences of herbicides and pesticides on human and planetary health. But few people—even among those who buy organic—think about who’s really most at risk. According to a report released in June by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 81.4 percent of Americans…
‘A Chicken Saved My Life’: Meet the Former Marine Giving Fellow Veterans a New Mission—and America New Farmers
“One of the bigger problems I had was I no longer had a purpose, because in the Marine Corps, you are built up to have a pretty big ego,” Robert Elliott told The Epoch Times. This problem isn’t unique to Elliott or to the Marines specifically, but is common to many veterans who have recently…
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