Insights and Opinion Archives - Page 6 of 13

Cotton Farmer Lloyd Arthur on Maximizing Irrigation Efficiency

Lloyd Arthur is a fifth-generation cotton farmer living in Ralls, Texas and whohas created an award-winning farming operation.

We Shouldn’t Fear Our Food, It’s Safer than It Has Ever Been

Sustainability and productivity can only come together when you embrace technology and understand how agricultural innovation has brought advances for the world.

Insight & Opinion: Without Modern, Industrial Farming, Pandemic Would Have Claimed Many More Lives

Hank Campbell believes that a real problem is the amount of effort that environmental activists spend promoting nonsense about food.

USSA Farmer Spotlight: Wheat Farmer Doug Goyings on Leading-Edge Precision and Conservation Practices

He is constantly striving to implement new practices and innovations that make the farm more efficient, more sustainable and more profitable.

Rendering and Leather Reduce Environmental Impact

The rendering and leather industries come into their own in ways that reduce environmental impact, benefit the economy and are, most probably, the ultimate in sustainability.

USSA Farmer Spotlight: Dairy Farmer Tina Hinchley on Milking Robots and Cow Comfort

Tina Hinchley is a dairy farmer in Cambridge, Wisconsin – America’s dairy land. She and husband Duane grow around 2,300 acres of crops, not only to be used as cattle […]

Insight & Opinion: Feeding the Nation in the Time of Covid-19

A look at how U.S. farmers and the food supply chain are responding to the pandemic and the lessons they have learned for the future By Janine Maxwell, The U.S. […]

Guest Insight: Why We Fear the Food We Eat

Formerly a senior advisor on global food policy and agricultural trade at the U.S. Department of State for 13 years, Jack Bobo is CEO of Futurity, a food foresight company […]

USSA Producer Spotlight: Sonny Beal, Lobsterman

Sonny Beal, a third-generation lobsterman, explains how the ethic of conservation was ingrained in him from an early age by his father and outlines what lobster sustainability means to him […]

Hope Through Agriculture: Now More Than Ever

Julie Borlaug is urging the industry to share personal stories of how it is building a safe, sustainable and resilient global agricultural system, providing hope in these uncertain times – […]

USSA Farmer Spotlight: Tim Keegan on No-Till Farming Practices and Precision Ag

Iowa maize, soybean and cow/calf farmer Tim Keegan is a strong advocate of no-till farming practices and precision farming tools, which he uses to increase efficiencies while protecting the land. […]

Debunking Sustainability Myths and Misconceptions

The past decade has brought a wave of conscientiousness as consumers, especially Millennials and Gen-Z’s, seem more interested than ever before to know more about their food’s journey before it […]