Can GM and Non-GM (and organic) products Coexist?
New Book on GM, Organic and Conventional Crops and Foods Food, its ingredients and production have captured the publics’ attention in a dramatic fashion over …
Increasing Carbon Sequestration in Soils
What could climate change mean for ag? In October I had the good fortune to participate in CQuest: Charting a Course for Climate Research in …
Politics More Important Than Food Security
EU Challenges FAO It’s not easy to be on the same page with someone else, let alone ask multiple nations to place the same importance …
Risk versus Knowledge
Framing what is known against what is not Society is challenged, and at times troubled, as it grapples with what is known and what it …
The Practice of “Owning” Plant Patents
Patenting plants and the processes to create them When you think about plant patents, it might surprise you to learn that the first plant patent …
Growing the Urban Garden
Educating a new generation of consumers While there has been a seemingly endless amount of rain this summer, it did briefly dry up enough one …
Those Dang Weeds
Weeds have a large impact on farming if improperly controlled Weeds can be controlled by one of two means, cultivation or chemicals. For decades, fields …
Top Scientists Chastise Greenpeace
100+ Nobel Laureates call for an end to GM crop protesting The Nobel Prize was established upon the death of scientist and inventor, Alfred Nobel, …
Not Such a Fun Guy, These Fungi
Plant diseases having increasingly devastating effects In June I was fortunate enough to attend a captivatingly interesting conference organized by the University of Saskatchewan’s Global …
GM Crops Provide $150 Billion in Global Benefits
Feeding an additional 2-5 billion people over the coming 30 years is going to challenge every single aspect of agriculture and food production. While some …