The midterm elections are critical for agriculture because the party that controls the House and Senate will impact leadership of the ag and budget committees as they write a new farm bill. Washington insiders say there could be a power shift in the works.
Ken Ferrie says fields with good soil health can have as much disease present as an unhealthy field, but healthy plants handle stress better than unhealthy ones.
Dr. Frank Mitloehner is widely embraced by the livestock industry for using science to push back on critics who only see food animal production as an environmental disaster. The New York Times' recent attempt to harass him went about as well as a drunken tourist playing chicken with a bison in Yellowstone.
