This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto involving an Indiana farmer who allegedly bought commodity seed from an elevator and used that seed to plant another crop. Monsanto argues this act would infringe on its technology use agreement. To me it sounds like Bowman did this knowingly violating the agreement. Personally, […]
Happy New Year and thanks to everyone who has visited this blog in 2012! Here’s a rundown of some stats provided by WordPress. I had more than double the traffic here than I did in 2011. Let’s see if we can double it again in 2013! Thanks again for reading, commenting, sharing, and subscribing. See […]
Critics of conventional farming often decry the use of herbicides. Especially glyphosate. That’s all fine and dandy, but the problem I see with the arguments some people present is they contain no substance. Take a look at a facebook post on the Kellogg’s Facebook page that I shared to my blog page to get other’s response on. […]
You may remember a while back when I wrote a post about biotech sweet corn, and how it could greatly reduce pesticide applications. Thanks to the popularity of that post (which still gets hits almost daily) I was afforded an opportunity by Monsanto to take delivery of a few freshly harvested ears of Seminis® Performance […]
High commodity prices have reignited the food versus fuel debate. Not that it ever really went away, but with farmers reaping high prices for several months now you can see how it’s easy for those who don’t have the right information to make the connection that high commodity prices directly lead to high food prices. […]
One of the subjects I’ve been making an effort to learn more about since starting this blog is that of biofuels. I have to admit, before I really started looking into renewable fuels I was in the camp that wanted our energy independence to come from getting our own oil here at home. I still think […]