Agriculture committee  I have experience working on the ground in Kenya and Nigeria. I have a stake in a farm in Uganda. The first thing we would do is subsidize soil sampling, because when you sample soils and get soil analysis done, you help small landholders understand where the constraints are in t

Agriculture committee  These are actually qualitative and quantitative measurements. For example, you can measure whether or not a farmer soil-tests. You can document whether or not a farmer is matching his nitrogen recommendations, or balance for fertilizer recommendations, to those soil tests and rec

Agriculture committee  There's always a trade-off in agriculture, and ultimately it comes down to signals being sent by the marketplace to farmers. CPS wheat, for example, is mostly utilized for ethanol production, versus hard red spring wheat, which is mostly used for human consumption. If we want to

Agriculture committee  Hello, everyone. My name is Robert Saik. I'm beaming in to you from San Sebastián, Spain. I echo the comments made by my colleague from Richardson grains. I'm speaking here in Spain on the resiliency of agriculture globally. My background is that of professional agrologist. I'