What Trump's Win Means for Food and Agricultural Policy
Should we expect a scaling back of regulations or even repeals?
Should we expect a scaling back of regulations or even repeals?
As the presidential race drags into the home stretch, food issues don't even rate as a blip on the polls.
It's is good for the environment and it feeds people too.
Changing café culture and international do-gooderism collide on a troubled island.
According to state regulators, skim milk = skim milk + mandated additives.
Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing
The feds are bailing out dairy producers. Here's why that's a terrible and wasteful mistake.
Hurting farmers and consumers. Squeezing out competitors. Forcing production abroad. Causing food waste. What's not to love?
Ballot measure will decide in November whether to impose unwise, harmful, costly, and unconstitutional standards for raising a host of livestock animals.
The Ministry of Urban Agriculture promotes home and community gardening in hunger-wrecked Venezuelan cities.
Reason TV set out to cheer up Venice Beach doomsayers with evidence of positive global trends.
"No substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between current commercially available genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops"
Malthusians are never right and never win.
Recent trends on population, farmland, deforestation, and urbanization are cause for optimism.
Or at least about half of corn and soybeans would be impossible
But benefits won't last forever as climate change gets worse
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
"We are now at the dawn of the gene-editing age."
Farmers would have to plow down an area roughly equal to Connecticut.
Preliminary forensic analysis suggests intentional data manipulation
The anti-doomsaying book for this decade*
A model for how to voluntarily rewild North America.
Forget Right and Left: Are You an Upwinger or a Downwinger?
Controversies over laws in all 50 states that protect the rights of farmers to actually farm.
Neo-Malthusians still get it wrong: Markets and science will feed 9 billion if not blocked.
And there are far more trees than researchers previously thought - more than 3 trillion
Dairy protection legislation criminalized secret filming of abusive treatment of farm animals.
A great new bi-partisan House bill would wrest control over intrastate meat slaughter from the USDA.
Avian flu is not the only explanation.
Provisions prevent feds from spending on interference with state hemp-farming programs or hemp crop transport.
The Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause now protects you from government programs that steal your food.
Or so some hyperventilating scaremongering nitwits would have you think.
Supreme Court hears case of USDA agricultural takings.
Room for buffalo to roam and antelope to play.
"The free market is suddenly hip on the farm again."
A Huckabee gem from the Summit: "If I were the president, I would like to have all the authority there is."
Obama has taken concrete steps to loosen restrictions on U.S.-Cuba trade. Agriculture has been-and will be-the key driver of change.