agriculture
FDA reports 38% decline in animal antibiotic sales since 2015, easing public health concerns
For several years, an area of focus for those of us involved in farm animal care has been a commitment ...
We can sustainably feed 3.4 billion people. Study shows 4 eco-friendly farming practices will help produce food for 10 billion
Global agriculture puts heavy pressure on planetary boundaries, posing the challenge to achieve future food security without compromising Earth system ...
Viewpoint: After years of bashing agriculture and GMOs, Chipotle reverses course with ‘Cultivate the Future of Farming’ campaign
Given Chipotle's past cozy relationship with organic food marketers, this seems more like a marketing stunt ...
New CRISPR gene-drive system could crack down on antibiotic resistance in animal agriculture
Taking advantage of powerful advances in CRISPR gene editing, scientists at the University of California San Diego have set their ...
New vaccine could immunize 50 million cattle against bovine tuberculosis
Scientists at the University of Surrey have developed a novel vaccine and complementary skin test to protect cattle against bovine ...
China cleaning up 25 million acres of polluted farmland to meet soaring food demand
China has shut more than 1,300 heavy metal enterprises since 2016 as part of a long-term plan to curb widespread ...
Oxford researchers: German study warning of insect declines lacks robust evidence
Sampling in Germany, Seibold et al. present an interesting and impressive study of arthropods in grassland vegetation and those in ...
Will Alaska grow its own food as summer temperatures surpass 90 degrees?
Alaska has been on a multi-year weather paroxysm as the Arctic heats twice as fast as the rest of our ...
Has modern agriculture ‘tainted’ your Thanksgiving dinner?
The Environmental Working Group knows how to grab headlines with ominous claims about America's food supply. In 2018, the Washington, ...
Viewpoint: Intensive ‘industrial’ agriculture boosts farm productivity, promotes environmental sustainability
It's important to be honest about the benefits of farm consolidation if we value keeping food prices low, combating climate ...
Danone, General Mills to Congress: USDA investment in carbon sequestration on farms can help mitigate looming ‘climate crisis’
CLIMATE CRISIS COMMITTEE LOOKS FOR AG SOLUTIONS: Congress took a rare dive into the nexus of climate change and agriculture ...
Viewpoint: New study provides clear evidence of substantial insect biomass and biodiversity losses
There are certain times in life .... when we think that we know something but the evidence is less than ...
Viewpoint: Documentary ‘Modified’ peddles falsehoods about GMOs, pesticides and ‘corporate control’ of food
"Modified” is an elaborate lie about genetic engineering ...
United Nations FAO: 14 percent of food wasted before it reaches consumers
Around 14 percent of global food goes to waste after harvesting and before reaching the retail level, including through on-farm ...
Wait, corn is a fruit? Yes—here’s the biology that explains why
We all know the is-a-tomato-a-fruit debate (correct answer: yes, but you still shouldn’t put it in a fruit salad). Now ...
US ‘Insect Allies’ program engineers bugs to fight plant disease: Are they high-tech helpers or horrific threats?
Scientists dream of one day being able to construct viruses or bacteria from a collection of building blocks. Like a ...
Viewpoint: Why farm to table organic food campaigns are ‘bunk’
[T]here is big money in making consumers feel ecologically pure and big money to be lost if a certain brand ...
CRISPR gene editing poised to streamline next ‘agricultural revolution,’ plant scientists say
As a growing population and climate change threaten food security, researchers around the world are working to overcome the challenges ...
Developing countries likely to boost CO2 emissions to combat hunger, study finds
Achieving an adequate, healthy diet in most low-income countries will require a substantial increase in greenhouse gas emissions and water ...
Chemical-free pest control tools on the way thanks to novel gene silencing strategy
In insects, rapidly evolving primary sex-determining signals are transduced by a conserved regulatory module controlling sexual differentiation. In the agricultural ...
Podcast: Food snobbery vs the Impossible Burger: A skeptical look at health claims about plant-based meat
"Natural food" advocates have blasted Impossible and Beyond as unhealthy. Let's look at their arguments ...
Viewpoint: Brazilian farmers destroy the Amazon? Here’s what Greenpeace isn’t telling you
In 2016, the Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen flew over the Amazon forest with the head of Greenpeace Brazil as part ...
Meat wars: Cattle industry fears dwindling sales as Impossible, Beyond burger popularity grows
For decades, veggie burgers were the token offering to vegans at the backyard barbecue, and Tofurky was the Thanksgiving benediction ...
Eliminating photosynthesis ‘bottleneck’ could boost crop yields by 10%
Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may ...
‘Sputnik 2.0’: China wants to lead the world in CRISPR research
China is seeing an explosion in CRISPR-based animal studies and embracing the gene-editing technology with unrivaled zest and zeal—so much ...
Why the USDA employed taste testers to change how Americans eat
Lucy Alexander boasted one of the strangest jobs on the federal payroll. Her official title was the innocuous “chief poultry ...
‘Homo gluttonous’: Could the history of our meat-eating, over-consuming species threaten the planet?
During our hunter-gatherer past, which constitutes 99 per cent of our history as a species, ... omnivorous tastes served us ...
