Agriculturally Speaking

• An Outsider's Inside View of a China Trade Mission

  When I found myself in China and South Korea on a trade mission with several Michigan food and agriculture entrepreneurs I couldn’t help but be impressed by their relentless drive, their ...

• Moving Goalposts: The Challenge of Lake Erie Algal Blooms Part 4: What We've Always Known

  In this four-part blog series, an agricultural newbie attempts to explain one of the Great Lakes’ biggest challenges.

• Moving Goalposts: The Challenge of Lake Erie Algal Blooms Part 3: Things We Know but Can't Change

  In this four-part blog series, an agricultural newbie attempts to explain one of the Great Lakes’ biggest challenges.

• Moving Goalposts: The Challenge of Lake Erie Algal Blooms: Part 2: What We Know We Don't Know

  In this four-part blog series, an agricultural newbie attempts to explain one of the Great Lakes’ biggest challenges.

• Moving Goalposts: The Challenge of Lake Erie Algal Blooms: Part 1

  In this four-part blog series, an agricultural newbie attempts to explain one of the Great Lakes’ biggest challenges.

• Love Agriculturally: Notes from the 2017 Pure Michigan Agribusiness Summit

  As a relative newbie to the world of Michigan agribusiness, I had no idea what to expect when I walked into the Suburban Collection Showcase in Novi for the 2017 Pure Michigan Agribusiness Summit.

• Agriculturally Speaking...Michigan Celebrates Food and Agriculture Month

  To recognize just how much food and agriculture means in the lives of millions of Michiganders—including consumers, farmers, processors and many others—Michigan Governor Rick Snyder ...

• Agriculturally Speaking...State Infrastructure Project a Key to Michigan Agriculture's Future

  Increasingly more difficult to achieve in today’s political climate are long-term strategies designed for the greater good—both for citizens and for multiple, diverse industries.Increasingly ...

• Agriculturally Speaking...MDARD Energized by China Trade Mission, Looks to Future

  MDARD Director Jamie Clover Adams recently returned from a two-week trade mission to China, along with seven Michigan food growers and producers. Despite the rigorous travel schedule and ambitious ...

• Agriculturally Speaking...MDARD Leading Michigan Ag Businesses on China Trade Mission

  Building on previous trade missions to China with Governor Rick Snyder, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Director Jamie Clover Adams now looks to parlay the department’s ...

• Agriculturally Speaking... Protecting Michigan Grain Producers

  Every day, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development works to ensure our state’s producers are paid for the grain they provide to Michigan’s licensed grain dealers.& ...

• Michigan Wineries Preparing for Tomorrow through Environmental Stewardship

  Despite suffering drastic weather-related fruit losses for the past two years, environmental stewardship has not become an afterthought. Michigan is making world class wines, but they continue to do ...

• Agriculturally speaking… MAEAP-verified hops farm shows environmental commitment

  By Jamie Clover Adams, director, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

• Agriculturally Speaking….MDARD partners with Metro Institute to Offer Computer-Based Testing for State Pesticide Certification Exams

  by Brian Verhougstraete, acting pesticide program manager, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

• Agriculturally Speaking for May 13, 2014: Fact v. Fiction and what really changed with the GAAMPs?