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In this opinion piece, Former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman with the Center on Global Food and Agriculture at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs discusses the food security threats to African countries and others due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

In this opinion piece, Angela Huffman with Farm Action Fund offers a rebuttal to an opinion piece written last month by NCBA CEO Colin Woodall.

In this opinion piece, Gregg Doud with Aimpoint discusses the unintended consequences if glyphosate was no longer available.

In this opinion piece, Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, discusses the importance of a robust crop insurance program in the farm bill and his work on the Crop Insurance for Future Farmers Act.

In this opinion piece, Ted McKinney with the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture discusses why the federal government should comply with the Supreme Court’s guidance in the Sackett decision as it releases its updated WOTUS rule.

In this opinion piece, Collin O’Mara of the National Wildlife Federation, Whit Fosburgh of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Marilyn Vetter of Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever and Adam Putnam of Ducks Unlimited discuss how Congress can continue to build on the Conservation Reserve Program’s success in addressing conservation challenges while benefiting farmers, wildlife and the environment.

In this opinion piece, David Rosowsky at Kansas State University and Peter Dorhout at Iowa State University discuss the need for agriculture research infrastructure.

In this opinion piece, former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns discusses the benefits artificial intelligence brings to agriculture and how U.S. farmers can use government tools like the Research and Development Tax Credit for implementation.

In this opinion piece, Doug Friedman, Ph. D, with BioMADE discusses biomanufacturing within the farm bill. 

In this opinion piece, Holly Rippon-Butler with the National Young Farmers Coalition discusses 2023 farm bill policy solutions that would equitably transition farmland to the next generation of young farmers.