Steve Savage’s Episodes
Steve Savage, plant pathologist and agriculture industry consultant, co-hosts Biotech Facts and Fallacies with Cameron English. Since 2017, Savage has hosted the podcast POP Agriculture in association with the CropLife Foundation. With 35 years experience as a plant scientist, Savage offers an engaging and critical look at pressing issues in modern agriculture. Full bio
Podcast: How technology keeps cancer-causing mycotoxins out of our food
Here's a question for you: what if there were dangerous toxins that could make their way into your food, but ...
Podcast: What Doctor Who can teach us about protecting California’s grape industry from ‘alien’ bugs
Are you a fan of the long-term sci-fi comedy Doctor Who? It's the bizarre but entertaining story of an extraterrestrial ...
Podcast: The story of a grape disease that decimated vineyards for 200 years—and how science helped stop it
When Europeans began to colonize North America 400 plus years ago, they brought along the crops they knew how to ...
Podcast: As more US farmers retire, here’s how to recruit a new generation of growers to feed us
Is farming for the aging? While Paul McCartney ponders, “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when ...
Podcast: How farmers grow the 2.7 billion pounds of coffee we drink every year
Whether you typically crave a drip coffee or something a bit more intricate, we can all agree that caffeine is ...
Podcast: Getting back to nature—7 reasons you should start a home garden
Our collective desire to get “back to nature” is probably one of the better instincts from the Woodstock era that ...
Podcast: How science brought us ‘synthetic’ fertilizer, and why it was a game changer for farmers
Bet you never thought fertilizer was magical but that changes today! On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, plant ...
Podcast: Environmental Working Group’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ list is an unscientific scam
Scammers are having a moment. On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, plant scientist Steve Savage tackles scams within ...
Podcast: 7 modern pest control tools that protect our food from hungry bugs
Need to manage a pest problem? Luckily, there are many ways to do that! From physical to biological and chemical ...