agriculture

It’s time to fight for the technology that makes our food great. It’s time to stand up and scream “No!”

Tim Huelskamp, president of The Heartland Institute, joins The Pod Complex and Rick Ungar to discuss the challenges that we are currently facing in our economy.

When is a carcinogen not necessarily a carcinogen?

Agriculture is under attack.

Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr travels regularly for speaking engagements to farmers and agriculture groups across America.

On June 6, Science Director Jay Lehr was a guest on AG Wired’s podcast ZimmCast to discuss the impact that Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord will have on the agricultural industry and farmers as a whole.

Instead of damning oil as evil, politicians and pundits should start questioning their blind faith in ethanol.

A new study in Global Change Biology examines the effect of lower carbon dioxide levels on plant growth and finds, under lower carbon dioxide levels, plants do less well.

Recently two stories detailing agricultural innovations caught my eye. They intrigued me because they show, even if I’m wrong about the cause and possible consequences of climate change, people around the globe are discovering innovative ways to adapt to future climate changes regardless of the cause and the type of change.

In attempting to understanding the ideas and institutions of the period of history that is usually called the “Middle Ages” it must be kept in mind that this covers a time frame that easily is divided up into smaller periods, each of which can be seen to have its own unique characteristics and qualities.

In 2009, there was a massive email leak from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Supporters of global warming claimed the disclosures were out of context while opponents claimed they showed efforts to manipulate data. One of the quoted emails, Professor Phil Jones, while discussing paleo-data used to reconstruct past temperatures, says, “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” (Emphasis added.) The House of Commons investigated and concluded, “insofar as we have been able to consider accusations of dishonesty—for example, Professor Jones’s alleged attempt to ‘hide the decline’—we consider that there is no case to answer.”

A Leftist governmental principle is the Butterfly Effect: “A property of chaotic systems…by which small changes in initial conditions can lead to large-scale and unpredictable variation in the future state of the system.”

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Isaac Orr, a research fellow for energy policy speaks with Kelly Bennett. Bennett is a Director and Managing Partner at Ponderosa Advisors LLC, a company that develops strategies and provides advisory services for energy, agriculture and water sectors. Ponderosa Advisors recently created a new program called Water Sage. This web-based mapping program provides efficient, user-friendly access to this data, helping users evaluate key elements of water rights. Bennett joins the podcast today to discuss water rights.