Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party have swept to victory in Britain’s general election. Which means the British probably will get a chance to show whether Charles de Gaulle was right after all.
Wade Cowan, soybean producer and President of the American Soybean Association, outlines the important role of soy production for global food security in the latest Agri-Pulse and Chicago Council monthly column.
Beginning this week, The Chicago Council will highlight the recommendations from the new report, Healthy Food for a Healthy World: Leveraging Agriculture and Food to Improve Global Nutrition, in a weekly blog series.
Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker's new stance on immigration--decreasing legal immigration--is unlikely to benefit him in the long term.
I was talking recently with a farmer who farms a big spread in northern Illinois. There’s more to this these days, he said, than just going out and plowing the back 40. Where and how he plows depends largely on the data he gets daily from three satellites orbiting a thousand miles above his farm.