It’s Blog Action Day. A day when apparently a whole lot of environmental extremists are joyfully proclaiming the end of life as we know it. Seems like a continuation of the Chicken Little theory. Take the Prime Minister of the UK’s blog post that says, “Climate change is the biggest threat to all our futures.” Maybe we should just all roll over and die right now? Or is it possible that we’ve got a lot of people trying to alarm and scare the public to help further their political agenda? Take a look at the photo in this post on the organizing group, Change.org’s, blog on animal rights. Yes they want you to become vegans.
I’m hoping that a lot of farm bloggers are weighing in on the subject of climate change. As Cindy said earlier this week, the organizers of this annual promotion even sent out very misleading and incorrect information about agricultural production, encouraging participating bloggers to use it in their posts.
If you’re a regular AgWired reader you know of my complete skepticism of global warming and that mankind has an impact that is changing the climate. I believe in climate change of course and that different areas of the world have changes from time to time. Take the seasons for example.
The fact is that agricultural production and the technological breakthroughs we’re seeing in precision, seed technology and better chemistry is having a positive impact on the environment and our ability to help feed the world. So let’s accept the fact that we have climate change and focus on how to deal with it instead of trying to scapegoat the very people who provide our food. Let’s realize that we’re seeing the development of crops that are drought resistant and that we’re producing more and more food on less and less land.
Yeah, this year’s Blog Action Day topic and the hysteria it’s trying to create is just plain BAD.
How do you become new media experts? Participate in conferences like BlogWorld and New Media Expo. That’s why I’m here with Carly and Robert our webmaster. In fact, Robert is in this photo somewhere. The Mac in the front row on the left is mine.
Gebisa Ejeta, Purdue University Distinguished Professor of Agronomy plant breeder and geneticist, will receive the 
How do you feed, clothe and fuel a world population that is expected to climb to 9 billion people by 2040? That is the challenge the folks at the Farm Foundation set out about a year ago to address six major drivers impacting agriculture’s ability to provide food, feed, fiber and fuel to a growing world. Those six areas are: global financial markets and recession; global food security; global energy security; climate change; competition for natural resources and global economic development. 
Farmers from around the globe gathered in Des Moines this week to participate in the 2009 Global Farmer-to-Farmer Roundtable, which is held in conjunction with the World Food Prize and hosted by 
This year’s honoree is Jim McCarthy, a farm manager from Ireland whose agricultural interests span three continents – Europe, South America and North America. He says it is frustrating that he is unable to use biotechnology-based crops in his farming operation in Ireland, but can in other areas. “The environmental benefit of GM (genetically modified) crops is staggering,” he said, as he made comparisons between the farm operations he’s involved with in Ireland and Argentina. He says wildlife numbers are much higher in the South America farm operation because fewer pesticides are used because of Bt traits in the crops. “We’re not using huge amounts of organophosphates, so the food chain is not being interrupted for the wildlife,” he said. 
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Helping livestock and poultry producers develop and implement plans to limit their environmental impact is the goal of a program called 
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