Cornucopia’s Take: Marijuana is now legal in several states, and growers are expanding operations as fast as they can. Unfortunately, many of the growers are ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Aurora is profiteering on the “organic story.” Consumers think they are supporting environmental stewardship, authentic organic farmers, and respectful treatment of livestock when ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Chlorpyrifos is a commonly used organophosphate insecticide in conventional agriculture, linked to lower IQs and levels of gray matter in children exposed prenatally. ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Although President Trump says he does not believe the findings from the National Climate Assessment (prepared jointly by 13 federal agencies), many farmers ...
Cornucopia’s Take: China has tacked a 25% tariff on U.S. soybeans in retaliation for U.S. tariffs on Chinese exports. Challenging weather this growing season further ...
Cornucopia’s Take: GMOs are created by splicing genes from one organisms into another, sometimes of different species. This process has brought us Roundup-ready feed crops ...
Cornucopia’s Take: The U.S. has been very slow to implement policies that would encourage organic agriculture, focusing instead on organic as a marketing tool. Countries ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Immigration policies have made farm laborers hard to find. U.S. citizens are largely unwilling to perform the demanding work required to grow and ...
Cornucopia’s Take: We often see stories in the news claiming that organic is no better than conventional agriculture. One of these propaganda pieces recently ran ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Two critics of dicamba use on the Arkansas Plant Board have been replaced by appointees who favor the use of dicamba later into ...
Cornucopia’s Take: As a national farm policy group, we don’t universally track state and local political issues. But in the prime organic agricultural production states, ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Conventional pork producers pen their hogs in overcrowded barns, spray them with pesticides, provide the cheapest feed available, and store their considerable manure ...
