By now you've probably checked your fridge for that recalled lettuce. It got surreal enough that The New Yorker ran a real headline: "Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea." And that recall is just the latest symptom. Our...
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Put a group of ten ranchers and farmers in a room, like we did the last three days at our Executive Link meeting, and you're going to get more ideas than you could act on in a lifetime. Every conversation...
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How do you balance traditions, a respect and a reverence for "the way it's always been done," with new ideas and new technology? It's been a question I've been mulling on this week in particular. Part of it stems from...
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Last week I was on a stage in Montana, next to a wheat farmer named Bob Quinn, when he grinned and said the line I haven't stopped turning over since: "Farmers should get paid like pharmacists." Half the room laughed....
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Some things worth doing are passed down. The belief that you can change the world by feeding people differently is one of them. For me, that story started long before Grass Roots. My dad has been my partner in adventure,...
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