agriculture

We’re in the holiday season, but that doesn’t mean conservative legislators should take a holiday from their conservative principles. Unfortunately, the farm bill devised by House and Senate negotiators would require them to do just that.

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

Uber-organic campaign enshrines primitive agriculture and malnutrition as human rights.

When is a carcinogen not necessarily a carcinogen?

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revised its outlook for food production upwards, yet again, for the 2017/2018 calendar year, with various basic food crops setting records in production and as stock, year over year.

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

The taxpayer-subsidized “safety net” for agricultural producers represents a long-standing policy failure that would make a Soviet central planner blush.

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

If humans are to survive and thrive, we need to expand the use of modern industrial agriculture.

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 today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Joshua Sewell, senior policy analyst with Taxpayers for Common Sense joins the show to discuss agriculture policy and crop insurance.

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.”

Climate change activists are disappointed with the Paris agreement because, in the words of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, it doesn’t go “far enough.”