Crops & Food
We eat to live. Humans use approximately 11% of Earth’s land for the cultivation of crops for food, but also for clothing, medicine and biofuels. Globally, major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton.
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Future GM foods like wheat, rice and salmon face even greater hurdles than today’s GM corn or soy
For many corn and soybean farmers in the U.S., the new normal is to plant genetically modified crops. But considering how ...
European Food Safety Authority greenlights Monsanto’s new GM soybean crop
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has delivered a positive scientific opinion on Monsanto's MON 87769 soybean crop, which has ...
Kevin Folta’s GMO primer: Genetic modification in crops is simply precision breeding
Eleven years ago when I began my career as a professor at the University of Florida, I would enjoy the sunny drives downstate from Gainesville ...
Anti-GMO activists destroy rapeseed trial crops in France to protest mutagenesis, not realizing plants were not mutagenic
Protesters “completely” ruined trials across more than 1 hectare (2.47 acres) on a research plot in the southwestern Charente-Maritime region ...
Are GMO food labels and a ‘right to know’ worth the price?
Whether the labeling debate continues to play out on a state-by-state basis, or the federal government eventually intervenes, chances are ...
Oklahoma State University’s chief wheat breeder claims GM wheat’s promises oversold
The wheat industry has been working for years to gain access to the same technology used to develop high-tech seed ...
All tools, including biotechnology, should be on table to fight global hunger
By 2050, the world population is predicted to increase from 7 billion to 9 billion people, a nearly 30 percent ...
Views on GMOs shifting: What we fight about when we fight about genetic engineering
From their very first field test in 1987, GMOs have been the subject of intense debate. Despite the current gridlock ...
Oregon’s Jackson county’s GM crop ban may face lawsuits based on state’s right-to-farm law
Opponents of a ban on genetically engineered crops passed by Jackson County voters say the prohibition is ripe for a ...
11 agricultural technologies that can safeguard food supply under climate change conditions
While the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warns that the worst effects of climate change are yet ...
New policies in Iowa to help grow state’s biotech industry
The close of the 2014 session of the Iowa Legislature brought new policy that will help grow the state's biotech ...
Honeybees and monarch butterflies on decline but GMOs are not to blame
Both honeybees and monarch butterflies are on the decline, and scientists have yet to figure out exactly why. Many critics are ...
Vermont’s GMO labeling law: Win or loss for consumers?
Vermont is the first state in the nation to pass a GMO labeling law, but whether or not it is ...
Proposed biotech reactor would produce enough fake meat to feed small town
The movement to sell locally sourced, artisanal food and drink has picked up steam in recent years as many consumers ...
UK agriculture secretary Owen Patterson aggressively advocating GM crops in Europe
Europe is making another attempt to break its longstanding logjam over the production and marketing of GM crops. But huge ...
German poultry producers backing away from 14-year commitment to using only non-GE soybeans
German producers have decided to feed their poultry genetically engineered soybeans, which biotech proponents say bodes well for transgenic crops ...
GM key to battle growing impact of climate change on farming
Climate change is turning farm fields brown in the Midwest and around the world just as global demand for food ...
Critics challenge South Australian Agriculture Minister’s anti-GMO stance
Critics have challenged South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell to “put up or shut up” on the science and safety ...
GM alfalfa’s release in Canada delayed as farmers reject it
A GM version of alfalfa, a staple in livestock feed, was supposed to be launched in Canada this year. The ...
Are GMOs the left-wing’s climategate?
When Vermont became the first state last week to require labeling genetically modified foods, it was hardly alone. Maine and Connecticut have already passed ...
How insects evolve resistance to GMO Bt cotton
An international team has discovered what happens on a molecular basis to insects that evolved resistance to genetically modified cotton ...
Consumers prefer GMO sweet corn, grown without insecticides, to conventional corn in independent trial
In a farm-to-fork trial conducted jointly by the University of Guelph and Birkbank Farms in Canada, genetically engineered (GE) Bt ...
Oregon counties vote on measures to ban GMO farming to guard organic farmers from ‘contamination’
In Oregon's May 20 primary election, the spotlight is on Jackson and Josephine counties with residents voting on measures that ...
Should consumers be concerned about the healthfulness of the non-browning GMO Arctic Apple?
Non-browning apples are likely to be the next genetically modified food approved for sale--which has some people jittery. What's the ...
GMO labeling push unsuccessful in GMO-producing Midwest
Calls to label genetically modified food have rumbled loudly through the East and West Coast states but have produced only ...
GMO labels: When having more information can be bad
There are a variety of contexts where the government mandates the kind of information that companies must put on their ...
Video: Non-browning GMO Arctic Apple maker defends its safety and nutrition while some Canadian retailers reject it
Federal agencies in the U.S. and Canada are expected to soon give approval to the non-browning Arctic apple, but a group ...
