Now, sitting on the front porch of our family’s cabin in rural Missouri, just a couple miles down the road from my family’s original homestead, I have been doing a lot of thinking. I’ve been mulling over what was gained and what was lost by the great migration from rural to urban and from farms to desk jobs.
Read MoreThe agri-food industry is an important focus during this time because of its essential services that it provides to all of us. We all need food. There is no option for our food system to fail. Now is the time to figure out how to build its resilience in the face of adversity.
Read MoreThis is an important time in the agri-food space as people around the globe are exploring the impacts of the Covid-19 crises and its impact on food accessibility and our agri-food system. Many of these questions do not yet have clear answers. Our critical thinking about potential solutions must match its novelty.
Read MoreLooking at Covid-19’s potential impact on our food and agriculture system is an incredibly important task to prepare for the unknown and develop a more resilient agriculture system. The impacts vary widely across the gamut, from small vegetable farmers to large commodity grain operations.
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