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Why does America grow 90 million acres of corn every year?

Michelle Miller | 
The U.S. is the No. 1 producer of corn in the world. Planted on over 90 million acres, it is ...
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Sunflower pollen may protect bees from deadly diseases

[A] new study offers hope for a relatively simple mechanism to promote bee health and well-being: providing bees access to ...
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Video: Organic vs conventional farming—do we have to pick one or the other?

Nick Saik | 
The public debate over the costs and benefits of organic and conventional farming continues unabated. But what exactly separates them? ...
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Will ‘precautionary mindset’ at UN biodiversity meeting threaten agricultural innovation?

Pablo Orozco | 
Some 196 countries may decide to limit access to the benefits of pioneering new biotechnological applications at an upcoming international ...
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GMO plants could boost production of earth-friendly biofuels

A study at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory identifies new details of how a sugar-signaling molecule helps ...
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Scientists engineer bacteria-hunting virus to kill E. coli in drinking water

To rapidly detect the presence of E. coli in drinking water, Cornell University food scientists now can employ a bacteriophage ...
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Will lab-grown burgers succeed where ethical arguments against meat eating failed?

Derek Thompson | 
[O]ne-sixth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are directly attributable to raising livestock, and the figure is rising as more ...
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Hybrid corn could eradicate harvest-destroying disease in Africa

Aghan Daniel | 
A centralized maize lethal necrosis disease screening facility established in [Kenya] five years ago has released 15 disease-resistant hybrid maize ...
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Viewpoint: New glyphosate study suggesting danger to honeybee microbiota is detailed, sophisticated—and wrong

Josh Bloom | 
Erick Motta and colleagues at the University of Hawaii just published a paper in PNAS entitled "Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees." ...
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Sustainability advantage: ‘High-yield’ intensive agriculture outpaces organic farming, large study shows

Andrew Porterfield | 
Opposition to “high-yield” agriculture has taken many forms: Accusations of corporate takeover of the idealized family farm; preference for organic ...
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Climate change could accelerate demand for robot farmers

Lina Zeldovich | 
It’s harvest season in the Northern hemisphere, so farmers head into the fields to gather the fruit of their hard ...
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$5 lab-grown burger could be ready by 2021

Daniel Nelson | 
Back in 2013, the emerging biotech field of lab-grown meat products held a tasting of a lab-grown burger which cost a staggering ...
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Do biotech crops boost yields for organic farmers?

Elizabeth Crewe | 
Nutrition, the environment and worker’s wellbeing are the banners of the green crusade. But, with organics charging an average of 50% more ...
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Record-high yields suggest climate change no threat to coffee production

Alex Berezow | 
For roughly the last two years, the media has been warning us that climate change is threatening the world's supply ...
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Is ‘factory farming’ an accurate description of modern agriculture?

Tim Durham | 
I’ve lived in four states on the East Coast and Gulf, and I’ve never found myself wanting come harvest time ...
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Could green benefits of biotech crops win over ‘ideological’ environmentalists?

Ronald Bailey | 
A new study in Nature Sustainability reports that “[e]xtensive field data suggest that impacts on wild populations would be greatly reduced through boosting yields ...
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Can we grow clothing textiles from living organisms?

Erica Cirino | 
[A] small but growing group of innovators is turning to the genius of nature in an attempt to put wastefulness ...
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Will ‘regulatory red tape’ cost India its status as world’s top cotton producer?

Barun Mitra | 
Delivering his fifth Independence Day speech on August 15, 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he wanted to add ...
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Opportunity lost: Has Uganda paid a price for not embracing GMOs, biotechnology?

Lominda Afedraru | 
It has been more than two decades since the commercial introduction of GMO crops. They have delivered a range of ...
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Dogs trained to sniff out bacterial diseases could protect bee populations

A new approach in the fight against American foulbrood – a disease effecting beehives across the world – is the ...
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Anti-GMO activists can’t be allowed to ‘have their way,’ African farmer warns

Bradford Owusu | 
When I was a little boy, what I feared most were the masqueraders .... human beings wearing masks or ...
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Mushroom-based biopesticides could cut environmental damage from synthetic chemicals

Jesslyn Shields | 
.... In the year 2012 — the last time the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) published a report on the subject — chemical ...
Low yields, high costs stop India from embracing organic agriculture

Low yields, high costs stop India from embracing organic agriculture

T Ramakrishnan | 
Nearly 25 years ago, an event held at the American Center Auditorium in Chennai on the topic of the Green Revolution witnessed ...
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Educating farmers key to biotech crop success in developing world

Gerald Andae | 
African countries and the Philippines have made significant progress in developing genetically modified (GMO) crops, adding impetus to the drive to ...
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New Age Meats lab-grown sausage passes first taste test

Erin Brodwin | 
On [September 17th], the startup, called New Age Meats, let a handful of journalists and prospective investors taste its prototype product ...
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Talking Biotech: There’s a worldwide vanilla shortage. Can science save our favorite food flavoring?

Alan Chambers, Kevin Folta | 
Vanilla is the world's favorite food flavoring—but there's not enough to go around. Thankfully, scientists are developing new ways to ...
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Novel uses for plant hormones could boost crop yields to ‘new limits’

Ralph Pearce | 
Amidst the growing interest in soil health and soil-plant interactions is a fledgling collective of newer concepts and products, from ...
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