Agri-Pulse
USDA further liberalizes rules to allow easy approval of more gene-edited crops
Biotech plant developers are pleased with a proposal from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to create five new ...
Facing billions more in potential settlements, Bayer holds to its legal strategy
Bayer is sticking to its legal strategy of trying individual Roundup cases in court, even as a series of recent ...
Viewpoint: ‘What would a future without the weed-killer glyphosate look like?’
Glyphosate helped end the reign of the weed once it was approved in 1974. Then, when combined with genetic modification ...
Mexican argument that corn ban does no harm meets US opposition
The Mexican government continues to minimize U.S. concerns over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's restriction on genetically modified white corn, ...
Chronic food insecurity threatens many low-income countries. What can be done?
After more than fifteen years of heartening declines, global food insecurity and malnutrition are again on the rise. According to ...
Viewpoint: ‘One of the greatest human accomplishments’ — GM insect-resistant cowpea quintuples yields without pesticides
African farmers, especially smallholders, will need to achieve much higher yields than they do today. Fulfilling this will require concerted ...
China scales up commitment to genetically modified agriculture and food, approving 8 new crops
Chinese officials have given their blessing to a handful of strains of alfalfa, canola and other crops, offering a sense ...
Viewpoint: Why food security is central to national security — And why the EU Green Deal Farm to Fork strategy is the wrong approach
A recent poll of U.S. consumers found that nearly 72 percent were concerned for food availability during the early days ...
Viewpoint: Toxic torts — Taxpayers each pay over $1000 a year to subsidize ambulance-chasing lawyers targeting agriculture products
We’ve all seen the ads, declaring that we or a loved one may be entitled to financial compensation, soliciting claims ...
‘The supply just isn’t there’: Brazil, Argentina and US push back on Mexico’s looming GMO corn ban
The U.S. corn sector has been adamant that it cannot easily or quickly shift to producing non-GMO corn to comply ...
Viewpoint: California governor Gavin Newsom wants to transform 30% of the state’s agriculture into organic. This study claims that would be a disaster
A new study finds that rapidly converting 30% of California agriculture to organic practices would dramatically increase food prices and ...
Is the Biden administration politicizing agricultural pesticide policy? The GOP believes so, and plans offensive
Republicans plan to use their razor-thin House majority and the committee control it gives them to investigate the Biden administration’s ...
Viewpoint: Ukrainian farmers ‘increasingly bleak’ in face of Russian shelling and dropping temperatures
Ukrainian farmers are doing their best to keep farming and producing food in their war-torn country, but the outlook is ...
‘Globally we are no longer innovating’: Agricultural productivity is faltering — and that’s why we need to streamline regulations of new technologies
The recently released 2022 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Report tells a disturbing story: Growth in global agricultural productivity is in steep ...
Viewpoint: Sweeping advances open door to biotechnology innovation in the UN, US and Africa
At the United Nations on September 21, 2022, President Biden announced $2.9 billion in assistance to address global food insecurity and urged ...
Viewpoint: Next-generation of sustainable fortified crops are in the pipeline — but approval process lags
Exciting agricultural discoveries are happening every day. But these discoveries will become reality only if we have a clear, science-based, ...
Glyphosate: A timeline of the controversial weedkiller’s history and legal troubles
How did we get here? The timeline below includes some of the more significant events, starting with Monsanto's founding ...
Viewpoint: US farmer organizations offer blueprint to address climate change
As farmers, we’re committed to preserving the natural environment. It’s the foundation — literally and figuratively — of our success ...
Viewpoint: Why aren’t Canada and the United States growing sustainable, genetically modified wheat?
It’s safe. It would help farmers deal with drought, support biodiversity, protect the environment and decrease a farms carbon footprint ...
Viewpoint on sustainable fishing: Oft-maligned aquaculture offers range of environmental and production benefits
With the U.S. importing 90 percent of the seafood we eat, it’s clear that wild capture fisheries alone can’t meet ...
EPA concludes three commonly-used herbicides can harm endangered species and their habitats
The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized biological evaluations concluding that three common herbicides can adversely affect endangered species or their ...
Bipartisan US House members voice support for streamlining agricultural biotechnology regulations
Streamlined regulations, enforcement of trade agreements, and increased funding for university research are all needed to advance innovation in biotechnology, ...
Viewpoint: Why is a university spending as much as $100,000 to host anti-science, anti-biotechnology activist Vandana Shiva?
The University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) has invited Vandana Shiva to speak on October 7th. According to a ...
Which genetically engineered plant traits need US government approval? Federal government offers new guidance
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing draft guidance for a new regulatory review process aimed at determining ...
USDA moves ahead with ‘sweeping reforms’ to biotech animal regulations
USDA is moving ahead with making sweeping reforms to how biotech animals are regulated, according to the first regulatory agenda ...
Can the Biden Administration challenge Mexico’s decision to ban glyphosate weedkiller and GMO corn?
Mexico may be one of the U.S.’s top agricultural trading partners, but this relationship has plenty of problems. Consider the ...
‘False paradigm’: Pitting organic and conventional farming against each other won’t promote sustainability, says GLP’s Jon Entine at USDA Ag Outlook Forum
Interest groups have become so hardened in their views about which types of agriculture benefit the environment that the fact ...
Non-farming glyphosate weedkiller uses likely harm endangered species, EPA finds
More than 90% of endangered species are “likely to be adversely affected” by use of glyphosate, but mostly through non-agricultural uses, ...
