Sustainability may mean different things to different people but that’s no excuse for anyone to ignore the trend. Sustainably sourced food is main stream and farmers and rural landowners who don’t get on board likely will lose major markets for their products. From the ground up, processes and procedures designed to measure and advance sustainability throughout the food system are […]
Category: Agriculture
Open for Criticism
Several times these past few weeks, I have seen a quote attributed to John F. Kennedy that is used to correlate to our current global pandemic. “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity,” Kennedy said. The quote is from a speech the president presented to the United […]
There’s a Change Coming
Randy Krotz CEO AgWiki, Inc. By now, we are all confident of our ability to determine the tone of a coronavirus article within the first few words. I have noticed one of three general categories in most of what I read. First, writers speak to an excess of government control and intervention. Second, politicians, either right, left, or all-inclusive, are […]
Who Benefits When Farmers Defend Technology?
by Randy Krotz – CEO AgWiki, INC. Individuals and organizations are using our current health crisis to manipulate public opinion regarding how food is grown and raised. Perhaps it would be helpful to reflect on how agriculture deals with consumers’ interpretation of food production and why this pandemic is an opportunity for outreach. The first significant effort of orchestrating the […]