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Crystal Balls and Ivory Halls? Take the Food Price Debate Back to the Farm
In the war over whose crystal ball sees how the drought will impact the average American, experts send volleys to and fro. Citing their own models, they argue until in a rabid fervor defending their...
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Hot? Irritable? Cranky? Imagine Watching Your Paycheck Burn Up Too
Can you imagine the feeling of waking up in the morning and realizing that it would be 13 months before you got another paycheck? The drought has farm families across the Midwest pondering just that as...
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A Tip of the Hat
As many media mercenaries continue misleading attempts to whip an already economically stressed public into a frenzy proclaiming the drought will hit their pocketbooks at the market this fall, the...
View ArticleGMO Labeling Proponents Tell Consumers They Know Everything, Trust They Know...
Hypocrisy has a strange way of coming to light during campaign season. For candidates and for ballot initiatives alike, the incongruent motivations of the groups promoting a particular vote often tanks...
View ArticleConsumers Have a Right to Know
In the California GMO Labeling debate, it seems everyone involved can agree upon one basic premise – consumers have a right to know. The debate occurs around exactly what that right entails. Arguing to...
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Hot, Dry and Hungry?
With so many questions surrounding how the drought might affect food prices, CommonGround Nebraska volunteer Diane Becker took to the airwaves at Husker Harvest Days to help consumers understand how...
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Support for California GMO-labeling Proposition Plummets
As the election draws closer, more and more California voters oppose Proposition 37, commonly referred to as the GMO-labeling law. A sharp decline in support, 19 percent in two weeks, shows that...
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Kentucky Shoppers Taking CommonGround Farmers Home
CommonGround Kentucky will be reaching out to start a conversation between the moms who grow food and the moms who buy it all next year through a series of articles in Today’s Family magazine. A free...
View ArticleIt’s almost Thanksgiving. So let’s talk turkey.
Today’s post originally ran on the Fuels America blog. Fuels America, of which the National Corn Growers Association is a founding member, is a coalition of organizations committed to protecting...
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American Farmers Clarify Where the Money from Higher Food Prices Goes
Contrary to what many believe, higher food prices do not equal more money for farmers. As the Northeast continues to deal with the effects of Hurricane Sandy, other parts of the United States are still...
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Find Kentucky Farmers at a Grocery Store Near You
Today, Corn Commentary shares a post from Kentucky Corn Growers Association Director of Communications Jennifer Elwell. On her new blog Kentucky Food and Farm Files, Elwell discusses a variety of...
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting (Next Year’s Crop)
Corn farmers might be wise to take a cue from a certain sector of their counterparts in traditional business sectors and learn the value of expectations management. In 2012, farmers felt the brunt of...
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Chicken Wing Shortage Claims Are as Bogus as the Calls of a Replacement Referee
Newspapers, online sources and television reports alike have spent days now terrifying a hungry public with reports that party food favorite buffalo chicken wings will be in short supply this Super...
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Where Do These Guys Get Their Info?
Without question, most Americans have probably wondered at one point or another where some members of the U.S. House of Representatives get their information. Prone to tossing about wildly inaccurate...
View ArticleLet the Public Convince Themselves of Farmer’s Value
In the maelstrom that is modern society, with a hyperactive media and a beleaguered work force, I think many of us rarely have the time to do research or critical thinking related to the issues of the...
View ArticleLow Crop Prices Line Corporate Pockets
With cotton prices falling, reports indicating larger profit margins for apparel manufacturers are surfacing. In the discussion, reporters do not seem to even ask if the companies that cover our rears...
View ArticleNewspaper’s Credibility At Issue
In 36 years of being directly involved in agriculture and the issues that make it so…interesting, frustrating, rewarding, and painful…I have only seen one positive story written about the issues...
View ArticleGrowing Global Food Security through Growing Acceptance Modern Ag
A Reuters news story released today confirmed that the advanced tools and practices used by modern American farmers can have a massive positive impact in reducing global hunger if more widely adopted....
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Water is Life and Drought Equals Higher Food Prices
Food prices are on the rise again and you probably already noticed. Thankfully, the mainstream media thus far is covering it in a balanced way and pointing out the primary drivers behind the...
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The More You Know
Remember the PSA’s that used to run with a tagline of “The More You Know?” They provided a helpful little piece of info on a broad array of subject? Today, Real Clear Science writer Ross Pomeroy...
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