The world needs more wheat. In peaceful times, Russia and Ukraine supply more than a quarter of the world’s wheat exports. The war between them has contributed to shortages and inflated costs.
Companies like Corteva Agriscience are delivering new products and innovations to help meet the needs of farmers working to maximize food production on every acre.
What if a partial solution to the plight of millions of dying children was a mere bowl of grain, but the sustaining food was pushed away in the name of science? Welcome to the saga of Golden Rice.
The new agreement means farmers will have "more choices and additional tools" for integrated weed management. In the process, Bayer remains committed to marketing its current crop systems and developing new technologies.
I’m tempted to think that without the advent and acceptance of GM crops, we wouldn’t now stand at the threshold of a new branch of medicine involving organs harvested from gene edited pigs.
Rather than panicking about an environmental doomsday, let’s embrace the ability of technology and the willingness of farmers to make our world a better place.
The pandemic doesn’t care about race, class, or borders. It’s the enemy of us all. That’s why we should come together in solidarity as we figure out the best way to use technology to achieve food security.
The Philippines just became the first country to approve the commercialization of golden rice. A nation in the developing world is leading the way to solve a global health problem through innovation and technology.
Tall waterhemp is big, prolific, and tough to kill. There’s only one way for the crops to win, and that’s with the safe and robust crop-protection products that help us keep this terrible weed in check.
There’s only one problem: We don’t have enough GMOs. The skepticism of W.W.W.s compounds the problem. Their resistance to GMOs makes it harder for ordinary people to achieve wellness, wealth, and worry-free living.
Since first introduced in the mid -1990's, the availability of GMO crops have made it easier for farmers to adopt new practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or keep their crops productive despite climate change.
We can embrace the science that supports crops improved with GM technology, and we can make investments that keep our food supply and transportation systems resilient. Or we can forsake the tools that keep food abundant.
As I travel around Africa and talk to farmers, I’ve witnessed the dangers of food insecurity—and I think I’ve discovered a way to discuss the promise of safe technology and empower the people to feed themselves.
As a farmer, I’m always thinking about how new technologies can create a more resilient food system—but because of colonial mindsets, I continue to encounter resistance to this idea.
Bioplastic—grown by farmers—could be massive for the agriculture industry, if related technology proves economical from field production to processing plant.
Sometimes the greatest discoveries are by accident. We weren’t looking for a new bee species—but we found one, as we studied pollinators that make so much food production possible.
President Lopez Obrador doesn’t seem to care whom these prohibitions harm. I wish he’d see us as allies in achieving food security---to meet the challenge, we need access to the world's technology.
The best trade is based on sound sciencein other words, regulations that guarantee the safety and health of food but don’t block its availability or make it costly.
“APHIS will evaluate the properties of the organism, rather than the method used to produce it, to determine whether the organism will pose a plant health risk.”
Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That's according to the company making the oil, which says it's the first commercial use of a gene-edited food in the U.S.
Recently researchers at the University of Illinois announced what is a startling breakthrough in bioengineering. The best way to explain it is they hacked photosynthesis, and the impact on agriculture could be big.
