Insights
Featured agricultural insights and education across all Priority Areas covered by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research.

We invite members of the food and agriculture community to share their Insights on food and agriculture. Thought leaders from across the food and agriculture community author these Insights, including experts, partners, grantees, funders and farmers. Insights provide an opportunity to share important views, perspectives, research and opinions about current food and agriculture topics.

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Manure – Waste or Resource? 

Portrait of Manny Sabbagh.

Manny Sabbagh

University of Minnesota

Diversifying the Future of Venture Capital 

The first cohort of the HBCU Kirchner Fellows are Bryana Pittman, Kwame Jackson and Martin Adu-Boahene who co-wrote this Insights piece to share the value of this fellowship and its potential impact.

Dusting the Soil for Fungus-Prints: Spinach Seed Production and One of its Greatest Threats 

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Alex Batson

Washington State University

What Do We Call Innovation? Looking for Common Cause in a Sea of Needs 

Portrait of Susie Hutton.

Susie Hutton

The Homestead Act, an Agricultural Revolution 

Portrait of Friefeld.

Dr. Jacob K. Friefeld

Springfield, IL

Theodore Roosevelt and the “Tiller of the Soil” 

Portrait of Duane Jundt.

Duane Jundt

Orange City, IA

A Farmer in Action 

Karen Washington

Farmer Veterans: From “Army First” to “Mother Nature Always Wins 

A day on the Battlefield: Searching for Perennial defenses in wild places 

Portrait of Kelsey Peterson.

Kelsey Peterson

2019-2022 FFAR Fellow