Sustainable Farming – A Video
For most farmers, sustainability is more than just maintaining things as they are – it’s making things better. It’s passing on our land to the next generation in better shape…
Tag: pesticides
My Interview With CropLife Canada
This summer, I was given an opportunity to do a video interview with CropLife Canada on the use of biotechnology and pesticides on our farm. As another way to interact with…
Glyphosate: A Carcinogen?
IARC’s claim that that glyphosate is a carcinogen is a troubling and baseless claim that ignores science. This post will delve into the details- and the reality of just how safe glyphosate is.
Why I’m Not An Organic Farmer
Pesticides, GMOs, Roundup, super-weeds, evil wheat, big Ag and a hundred other buzz-words are touted as the failure of modern agriculture’s quest to feed the world. Organic farming is proclaimed as the solution to these problems, as the future of sustainable agriculture. The reality is, as I will tell you in this post, that the opposite is true; conventional farming, not organic, is better for the environment and can sustainably and safely feed a growing world.
Why I Grow GMOs
What do you think about GMOs? Is there a more emotionally charged question out there in this part of today’s world? Certainly, it is understandable that the food we eat…
Why I Write
Why does anybody write? Is it some compulsion to make oneself heard? To leave something behind? We all want the world to remember us when we leave it. A page,…
Why Do We Spray?
There was a time, not too long ago, that June and July were relatively quiet months on the farm. Once in-crop weed spraying was finished, work in the fields was…