It takes an app and a family to run a farm
As we spent a couple of days in rural southern Minnesota, the scale and size of what Minnesotans call “an average family farm” surprised me: 180 dairy cattle or 500-acres. In my home country Romania, that is officially considered a large farm. That is a large farm...
Changes in climate demand change in action
Minneapolis: Climate change is not fake news. U.S. President Donald Trump may have skipped the G-7 meeting in France over climate change, but cannot avoid the reality of destruction he is staring into as Hurricane Dorian descends on the Caribbean and country. This...
Colombianismos – Let’s test Cargill (final)
Was Cargill transparent when dealing with me as a journalist about the land-acquisition political storm the company is involved in Colombia? Cargill was the first corporate visit undertaken by the WPI 2013 fellows. / Photo: Spas Spasov. I was not aware...
Colombianismos – Let’s test Cargill (II)
The following blog post is a translation of the article that was published in El Espectador on September 23 2013. Thanks to Carson Scott for his help in editing my translation. Interview with Cargill’s president “The land was just one piece of the investment”...
Colombianismos – Those forbidden words
“That’s the way it is”: a phrase that should be deleted from our vocabulary. Soybean crops near Tracy, MN. The grean ocean. The following conversation took place in the morning of Aug. 26/2013, inside the scoopmobile, between...
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