Agriculture’s Critical And Complex N-Game

A corn field in Iowa which requires a substantial amount of nitrogen fertilizer in order to be … [+] optimally productive (Photo by H. Abernathy/ClassicStock/Getty Images) getty Critics of moder...

Modern Agriculture’s House Of Cards, Inside California’s Controversial Prop 13, And Why Private Label Is Having A Moment

As David Barber, a partner at agriculture and food investors Astanor Ventures, told me while reporting my latest feature, modern agriculture has been built on three key assumptions: cheap energy, free...