Chris Bennett

Associate Editor, Western Farm Press

Contact cbennett@farmpress.com

A native of Helena, Ark., Bennett is a graduate of Missouri State University.

He has been an associate editor with Farm Press for five years.

Posts by Chris Bennett

Cliff Young — the farmer who outran the field

by Chris Bennett in Farm Press Blog May. 20, 2013

When unknown 61-year-old farmer Cliff Young shuffled off his farmland and destroyed 10 professional runners in a 544-mile race — a legend was born.......

Supreme Court stuffs seed patents back in Pandora’s box

by Chris Bennett in Farm Press Blog May. 14, 2013

The High Court squeezed seed patents back into Pandora’s box, but more cases will come....

Wine skeptic takes on climate change report

by Chris Bennett in Farm Press Blog May. 14, 2013

Welcome to the great wine scare of 2013. It's adios to California's premium wines and adieu to Bordeaux....

One bite or bullet from death for Hitler's food taster

by Chris Bennett in Farm Press Blog May. 8, 2013

For two and a half years, Margot Wolk was Adolf Hitler’s food taster — forced daily to play roulette and risk her life to protect his....

New GM crop wave may ease Frankenfood fright

by Chris Bennett in Farm Press Blog May. 7, 2013

A new wave of grocery aisle GM crops with clear-cut benefits to consumers may succeed in diminishing the volume of rhetoric from the Frankenfood cult....

Farmland — gold you can eat

by Chris Bennett in Farm Press Blog May. 1, 2013

Talk of bubbles or crashes hasn’t put a dent in the farmland market, and if the end is nigh — nobody is blinking....

Killing cattle softly: slaughterhouse or gun?

by Chris Bennett in Farm Press Blog Apr. 29, 2013

The stress-free, gunshot method approach to livestock slaughter is not viable. In the real world cattle industry where production and efficiency are......