by Sorana Stanescu | Sep 9, 2019 | Agriculture, Agriculture and Rural Issues, Global Business, Sustainability
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...
by Hakeem Irfan | Sep 3, 2019 | Agriculture, Agriculture and Rural Issues, Environmental Issues, Food Security, Political Coverage
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...
by Diana Duran | Oct 11, 2013 | Agriculture
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...
by Diana Duran | Oct 1, 2013 | Agriculture
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”...
by Diana Duran | Aug 28, 2013 | Agriculture
“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...
by Shakir Reshamwala | Aug 27, 2013 | Agriculture, Food Security, Global Business
As we left the Twin Cities and headed southwest towards the small town of Tracy – the ‘big city’ in the storied “Little House on the Prairie” TV series – the landscape gradually changed from thick pine trees to rolling grasslands. Corn and soybean crops swayed...
