Yes, farmers care about profits. That hardly means that we don’t also care about other things! Soil health, water quality, and producing a high quality and nutritious product is also important to us!
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Hi, I'm Amanda! My family farms corn and soybeans in Southwest Michigan. I'm also a practicing attorney.
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We're done planting corn!! 🥳🥳
Reducing food waste is a goal we should all have. Vilifying a product that can help us do that with disinformation isn't helping. My latest for AGDAILY
Social media is wrong to vilify Apeel's shelf-life technique | AGDAILY
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Apeel is a useful tool to safely and effectively extend the shelf life of fresh produce, yet activists aim to denigrate this remedy to food waste.
My biggest concern is one of the honorable mentions--gobbling up productive farmland and turning it into something else.
The 6 biggest threats to farming on a global scale | AGDAILY
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As a society, we have a responsibility to understand the urgency of the “C’s” and act accordingly -- to think globally and act locally.
Last week the Supreme Court dished out a blow by upholding California's Prop 12. I break down the opinion and what it all means here:
Breaking down the SCOTUS opinion upholding Prop 12 | AGDAILY
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Given the recent SCOTUS appointments, it was hard to anticipate how it would rule on the challenge to California's Prop 12.
