December 5, 2021 was World Soil Day 2021. With Omicron marching from state to state, the ever-present worries triggered by climate change, school shootings and so much tension in our public spaces, it is no wonder that World Soil Day…
By Madeline Mellinger, Charles Mellinger, and Charles Benbrook* What does Mike’s Pies in Florida have in common with a pregnant woman in the Midwest who is worried about the potential impact of rising herbicide use on her pregnancy and soon-to-be…
In the mid-1980s when I was the Executive Director of the Board on Agriculture in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), I had the privilege of working with some of the nation’s top weed scientists who had already become concerned…
By Tom Green, HHRA Board Chair and Charles Benbrook, Executive Director In the late 1990s Wisconsin soybean farmers eagerly adopted the Roundup Ready (RR) system of weed management. About 40% of the State’s soybean crop was planted to RR soybeans. On 70% of…