This is how I want the conversation about agriculture to start. Agriculture isn’t a “problem” that we need to “fix.” We grow more food with fewer resources than ever before. It isn’t perfect, but we’re a leader in sustainability, not a failure.
Hi, I'm Amanda! My family farms corn and soybeans in Southwest Michigan. I'm also a practicing attorney.
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Wash, rinse, repeat. My latest for AGDAILY
7 social media influencers profiting off food falsehoods | AGDAILY
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Here's the current crop of major anti-science, farmer-hating, gaslighting villains that are prolific across a variety of social media platforms.
Full moon crossed by #chemtrail ? Definitely a bad sign.
My latest for AGDAILY explains a recent court decision that has undone USDA's modern regulatory framework for GMOs.
How a federal court just pushed agriculture biotech back decades | AGDAILY
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If the agricultural industry wants to continue developing, progressing, and problem solving, it better find a way to streamline bioengineered regulations.
If you have a chance to speak up, do it. You may just wind up in an NPR article. 🚜
Some in the U.S. farm industry are alarmed by Trump's embrace of RFK Jr. and tariffs
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President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.
My, non scientific, definition of sustainable is “any farm land that has been in production for several generations and is still producing as much or more than it has in the past is sustainable.”
I like that a lot! It satisfies the economic progress of sustainability without complicating it with market forces and political positions that we have so little control over.