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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, May 10, 2024
If current environmental trends continue through the end of the century, the world could see corn production decline by 40 percent but wheat yields gain 30-40 percent, according to a top NASA scientist.
Specialty crop producers are looking to the next farm bill to expand crop insurance options and provide increased funding to address a number of challenges facing the sector, including needs for automation and development of new, safer pesticides.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a modified, new decree Monday to ban genetically modified white corn while temporarily allowing GM corn for feed and industrial uses.
A $20 million grant from the state of Wyoming– the largest economic grant in the state’s history– will scale Plenty’s work in indoor agriculture research and development.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson on Thursday announced the reorganization of subcommittees and named the six chairmen of the panels.
Speakers at a recent White House listening session pleaded with the Biden administration to modernize U.S. regulatory oversight of gene-edited plant products to compete with other countries that have streamlined processes allowing for quicker approval.
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is nearing the completion of a five-year pilot surveillance program to monitor antimicrobial resistance and will establish a permanent surveillance program.
One of the newest entrants in the quest for more sustainable agriculture is not very well known in agricultural circles but with Mineral "graduating" from X - The Moonshot Factory, that may be about to change
Industry analysts agree that biologicals will continue to play a larger role in agriculture around the globe, although they may differ on some definitions and expected market size.