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Gene-edited crops approved by USDA jumps from 7 to 70 between 2019 and 2020
Signaling progress for a new kind of crop engineering, the biotech crop trait firm Cibus says it will move forward ...
Viewpoint: Activists aim to block GM chestnut tree by hyping potential risks and ignoring real benefits
For more than 30 years, the American Chestnut Foundation (ACF) has been engaged in a privately financed program .... to produce ...
Analysis: Problematic provisions in new USDA rule for GE plants
Over the last three months, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published materials and conducted webinar presentations to ...
Europe’s pro-organic ‘green deal’ threatens US farmers who sustainably grow GM crops, USDA claims
Washington could complain to the World Trade Organization if the European Union goes ahead with a farming strategy that it ...
Gene-edited, blight-resistant rice approved by USDA, Colombian regulators
The Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have approved a genetically edited rice resistant ...
Viewpoint: How the ‘Food Justice’ movement reinforces inequality while doing little to improve health outcomes
It’s not clear what concept of justice this activism actually serves ...
Podcast: Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue interviews GLP’s Jon Entine on feeding the world sustainably through biotech innovation and challenging the ‘myth of organics’
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue wants to welcome you to his very own podcast – “The Sonnyside of the Farm.” ...
USDA approves first ever CRISPR-edited petunia
The research team led by professor Geung-Ju Lee of Chungnam National University and Toolgen announced that the new variety of ...
Viewpoint: Why the USDA should approve GMO disease-resistant chestnut trees
You may [have] heard “chestnuts on an open fire” at Christmas but they are a lot of rarer than they ...
Video: USDA to decide fate of American chestnut restoration
University researchers are seeking approval to restore the iconic chestnut to American forests by using a genetically engineered (GE) variety ...
USDA invites public comment on petition to approve GMO chestnut tree
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is inviting public comment on a petition ...
Viewpoint: Turning farms into carbon repositories can’t stave off ‘climate catastrophe’
In late June, overlooked amid pandemic, economic crisis, and protest headlines, a bipartisan cohort of United States senators introduced a ...
Organic farming fraud is growing, prompting USDA crackdown proposal
Responding to increasing fraud threats to the organic industry, the US Department of Agriculture seeks to strengthen oversight and improve ...
Organic activists sue USDA to nullify and revise bioengineered food labeling standards
The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard – which requires firms to label ‘bioengineered’ foods and beverages – is unlawful and ...
Harvard Law School urges USDA to allow ‘usual meat and poultry terms’ in labeling of cell-based foods
In some action on the petition front, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) acknowledges a request from the Harvard ...
USDA proposes measures to crack down on fraud in organic farming
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) proposes amending the USDA organic regulations to strengthen oversight ...
US GMO crop cultivation accelerates as farmers gain access to more biotech seeds
[Editor's note: GMO crops were widely adopted by US farmers after their initial approval in 1996. According to a new ...
Viewpoint: Without modern, industrial farming, pandemic would have claimed many more lives
In November of 2019 The Atlantic asked "experts" what they would change if they could go back in time. The ...
France’s proposed 2022 glyphosate weedkiller ban would harm conservation agriculture, USDA says
The French government’s agricultural research institute found that banning glyphosate will significantly increase production costs for French farmers practicing no-till ...
