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In reversal from prior surveys, Brazilians welcome introduction of drought-tolerant GMO wheat
More than 70% of consumers in Brazil would not have any restrictions related to consumption of transgenic wheat, according to ...
How epigenetic tweaks can increase corn and soybean yields
Through a field of science called epigenetics, [Sound Agriculture's On-Demand Breeding] platform increases or reduces expression of existing genes in ...
USDA bioengineered food labels are coming in 2021. Will they change consumer behavior?
Four years after the thunder in Congress over labeling foods made with GMO ingredients, the deadline for compliance with the ...
Bayer expects widespread use of dicamba in 2020 despite intense legal battle to restrict the weedkiller
Had it proceeded as planned, dicamba-tolerant soybean technology would be receiving rave reviews in 2020. In its four years of ...
First case of dicamba, 2,4-D herbicide resistance detected in hard-to-control Palmer amaranth weed population
Kansas State University (KSU) weed scientists have confirmed a Palmer amaranth population that resists the synthetic auxin (Group 4) herbicides ...
Podcast: Roundup resistance—new tactics help farmers keep glyphosate-resistant weeds in check
Weed resistance to herbicides has no field boundaries....Jeff Evans is an ecologist and the owner of Farmscape Analytics, LLC. He ...
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue: Anti-GMO activism could ‘derail’ vital agricultural tools
An amorphous “fear-your-food” movement, fed in large part by the ceaseless churning of the internet, could sideline, deter, or even ...
Podcast: Here’s why scientists don’t call genetically modified plants ‘GMOs’
GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, and CRISPR – which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, are used to ...
Can ‘heart-healthy,’ gene-edited soybeans build consumer trust in new biotech crops?
This fall, soybeans grown by 78 farmers in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Iowa churned out of combine augers into awaiting ...
Scientists breeding new disease-resistant soybeans to crack down on parasitic nematode
Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) [a common soybean pest] has overcome the main source of genetic resistance – PI 88788 – ...
Short-stature hybrid corn, likely to debut next decade, could dramatically boost crop yields
Farmers who have waded and stumbled through corn decimated by green snap or stalk lodging may be in luck in ...
How will gene editing impact agriculture? Experts offer 10 predictions
In the U.S., it’s full speed ahead for gene editing in animal agriculture. In August, the biotech company Recombinetics, based in ...
Low-gluten, high-fiber wheat varieties may begin to hit the market next year
Last winter, Paul Sproule read an article regarding niche wheats being developed by Arcadia Biosciences, a Davis, California, agricultural biotechnology ...
Memphis Meats vice president says traditional agriculture ‘required’ for success of lab-grown meat
Start-up company Memphis Meats says that in the future, consumer meat products won’t start in a pasture or a feedlot. Rather, they ...
New dicamba application strategies could be key to preventing accidental damage to soybean crops
Using dicamba as a preplant weed-management tool or abiding by state cutoff dates for postemergence applications may be a way ...
‘You have to have the courage to do it’: Kevin Folta on why scientists need to communicate with the public about GMOs
On Sunday, September 6, 2015, scientist Kevin Folta made the front page of the New York Times. ... [T]he Times article ...
Gene-edited pigs could eliminate need for castration
Castrating pigs is not a favorite chore for pork producers, but it’s necessary for meat quality and barn management. Now, ...
Will Australia free CRISPR gene-edited crops from government regulation?
Gene editing technology – CRISPR is the best-known example – would be freed from government regulation under a proposal by ...
5 gene-edited crops slated to hit the market in the near future
Farmers quickly gleaned agronomic benefits from GMO technology. Consumers? Not so much. Gene editing could change that, since it’s keying ...
Ecomodernist agriculture: Farmers need science and technology to limit environmental footprint
It takes roughly 6 square miles to support one hunting-gathering human. Modern intensive farming, by contrast, can support up to ...
Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: Genetic engineering could save farm animals from disease
Alison Van Eenennaam is one of agriculture’s leading voices of reason and persuasion in support of good science in food ...