GMO Technology
“Gene editing is the analog to digital moment for agriculture,” says Rory Riggs, co-founder of Cibus and newly named CEO of the merged company.
The crop technology ban is a dangerous decision not founded in science—and it is not necessary. Mexico would mandate this economic and nutritional misery upon itself.
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.
Tomorrow’s food and farming can be better by using today’s technology. Farmers can feed the world today and tomorrow, if we’re allowed to.
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.
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.
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.
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.
University of Florida researchers have developed corn that can thrive in nighttime heat.
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.
New corn traits will reach farmers faster.