Articles on commodities markets and sustainable farming

Here is a discussion of a recent study that finds that simple four-year crop rotations (with livestock included as well) could drastically decrease pesticide use in Midwestern farming as compared to our current corn-soy or corn-corn-corn practices, while maintaining the same profit margin.

For more ambitious readers, here's a long bit on the intervention of financial actors in agricultural commodities markets screws up those very markets and the lives of those who depend on them (read, all farmers and consumers!)