Field Notes on Progress
Abby ShalekBriskiStories of agriculture, rural life, and the ideas driving innovation and progress.
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Farm Productivity Research Has a People Problem
In May, wrote for about the drift of public agricultural research from farm productivity. He was writing as the White House proposed eliminating the Hatch Act funding, roughly $250 million a year that land-grant universities use dispropor...
Feral Hogs Don’t Understand Fencelines
I have a new op-ed, paywall-free here, in The Washington Post today explaining that trapping and controlling feral hog populations isn’t simply a technology problem. It’s a coordination problem.
Feral hogs have been spotted in at least 35...
We need more ag writers
This piece is a response to an op-ed by Stephanie Walton of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group published in the Financial Times on April 21, 2026. You can find it here.
Last week, the Financial Times published an op-ed arguing th...
Why Record Cattle Prices Don’t Mean Every Rancher is Getting Rich
I am indebted to Garth Gatson for the inspiration behind this piece. Garth is a rancher in Northern Missouri. You can follow him on X for great photos of his pretty red cows or his shrewd insights into the cattle industry. Garth and I inter...
The AI Revolution No One’s Talking About
This is, on one level, a story about semen. On another level, it is a story about industrial organization. A technology that helped dairies solve one problem, replacement heifers, also gave them a new way into the beef business. The importa...
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