NASDA

APRIL 24, 2025

Sincerely, Agricultural Retailers Association Almond Alliance American Feed Industry Association American Mushroom National Trade Association American Seed Trade Association American Soybean Association American Spice Trade Association Animal Health Institute Biological Products Industry Alliance Biotechnology Innovation Organization California Citrus (..)

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing Science Food Grain 130

Agwired

APRIL 16, 2025

Those opportunities include nitrogen fertilizer management, soil carbon management, the crop production and yield gap, animal production and management, and efficient energy use. led biotechnology in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Agriculture to Be Greenhouse Gas Negative report that was published late last year.

biotechnology 45

biotechnology Fertilizer Production Technology 45

Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 17, 2023

IFAD says we need diverse crops. KAUST says we need coloured rice. I hope it will go into Saudi Arabia’s new genebank. Genebank scientists says we need more collaboration. Goa thinks they need a new mango genebank. The USA already has an apple genebank.

Crop 203

Crop Agriculture Agriculture Farming 203

Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

CROPGRIDS: A global geo-referenced dataset of 173 crops circa 2020. It’s great to finally know where crops are grown. Just agricultural science: The green revolution, biotechnologies, and marginalized farmers in Africa. If only they had had this analytical framework when they thought of Bt crops. Thanks, satellites!

biotechnology 189

biotechnology Farming Farming Crop 189

Agwired

MARCH 11, 2025

The letter, sent to the heads of Health and Human Services, USDA, and EPA, specifically focuses on the importance of pesticides, biotechnology, and food and feed ingredients for farmers and consumers, and it highlights how these products are already well regulated to ensure their safe use.

Food 45

Food biotechnology Pesticide Crop Yield 45

NASDA

MARCH 8, 2024

General Comments NASDA sopports USDA’s efforts to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through a suite of administrative and statutory programs – collectively referred to as the SCCI. NASDA believes the SCBG program must be flexible and state-driven in order to be nimble, locally responsive, and efficient.

Crop 130

Crop Supply Chain Marketing Agriculture 130

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. From precision farming techniques using GPS-guided tractors to the use of drones for crop monitoring, technology is transforming how farmers manage their land.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Technology Yield 97

Jayson Lusk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Director, Seed Biotechnology Center and Associate Director, Plant Breeding Center, University of California, Davis Richard Lawrence, Ph.D., Head of Genome Editing, Yield, Disease, and Quality Research, Bayer Crop Science Fan-Li Chou, Ph. The main speakers included: Allen Van Deynze, Ph.

biotechnology 100

biotechnology Seeding Science Yield 100

Real Agriculture

MAY 8, 2024

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s third and final ruling announced Friday on gene-editing for crop variety development clears the path for this precise, cost-effective plant breeding tool to be used in Canada. Does this mean farmers will have access to new drought-resistant or nitrogen-efficient varieties for next year?

Crop 257

Crop Food biotechnology Seeding 257

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The chair of the House of Commons’ agriculture committee has introduced a private member’s bill aimed at speeding up regulatory approvals of new seed genetics, feed products, and crop protection products for Canadian farmers. Kody Blois, Liberal MP from Nova Scotia, tabled Bill C-359 — An Act to amend the Feeds Act, the Seeds Act.

Production 277

Production Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 277

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Crop species diversity: A key strategy for sustainable food system transformation and climate resilience. The Role of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces of Forage Legumes in Pre-Breeding as a Response to Climate Change. I do wonder why we don’t try crop re-synthesis a lot more. I wonder what AI says about that.

Forage 214

Forage Crop Yield Grain 214

Agric4profits

JULY 28, 2024

” Transgenic crops are satisfying needs which crop varieties produced by conventional You may ask the question, “Why are transgenics needed?”

biotechnology 52

biotechnology Crop Production Agriculture 52

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Pacific’s regional genebank is set for more work on lesser-known crops. Never thought I’d see the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Psychology Today , yet here we are. Too bad most of them won’t be able to go to Svalbard. How to make a genebank beautiful as well as sustainable. Australia has a rice genebank. For some reason.

Seeding 203

Seeding Crop Food Maize 203

Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The EURISCO-EVA Information System, an innovative approach to the data management of multi-site crop evaluation data. The FLAIR-GG federated network of FAIR germplasm data resources. For sure it should require data to be FAIR. Even evaluation data, though? That usually comes from genebank partners, not the genebanks themselves.

Seeding 197

Seeding Yield Technology Farming 197

Real Agriculture

JUNE 9, 2023

The Canadian government has decided to sign on as a third party in the United States’ request for dispute settlement consultations regarding Mexico’s restrictions on biotechnology in agriculture. challenge under the rules.

biotechnology 130

biotechnology Agriculture Agriculture Production 130

Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 21, 2024

The authors of book “ Moving Crops and the Scales of History ” have been awarded the Edelstein Prize 2024 for their work to “redefine historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”: the assemblage of people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that form around a crop.” Digging into Nigerian yams.

Seeding 214

Seeding Crop Technology Agriculture 214

Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Crop-to-wild gene flow in wild coffee species: the case of Coffea canephora in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Time to re-synthesize the crop, I say. Beyond the Orthodoxy: An Overview of the Potential of ‘Other’ Coffee Species for Crop Use and their Associated Challenges. Lots of wild species to use.

Beverage 202

Beverage Seeding Crop biotechnology 202

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Genetically modified crops (GMO) are also cross-bred, but instead of pollen, foreign DNA is introduced into the plant’s genome to create a new crop with desired characteristics such as sweeter-tasting fruit or longer-lasting color. But genome-edited (GE) breeding falls somewhere in the middle, depending on how you look at it.

Seeding 130

Seeding biotechnology Processing Grain 130

Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Climate-resilient crops: Lessons from xerophytes. Breeding for Na+ exclusion to improve salinity tolerance in crops has compromised their drought tolerance, but both tolerances are down to more gene copies in key families when comparing species. Innovation and Technological Mismatch: Experimental Evidence from Improved Crop Seeds.

Crop 214

Crop Seeding Technology biotechnology 214

Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it. parasitism in major cereal crops for enhanced crop production and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review. Farmers’ heterogeneous preferences for traits of improved varieties: Informing demand-oriented crop breeding in Tanzania.

Agroecology 201

Agroecology Fertilizer Food Crop Yield 201

Agricultural Biodiversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

CIP is helping China improve its potato crop. UK builds first crop biome cryobank. I love the Dark Emu Hypothesis , and not least for its name. Won’t be long before China’s genebank has 3D images of all its holdings. I’d love to see the potatoes. Want to see the earliest known site of domestication of teosinte ?

Seeding 213

Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 213

Food Tank

MARCH 5, 2024

and Canadian challenge is to defend the interests of the biotechnology industry. Our organization, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, is a large network of farmer and environmental groups that has been monitoring the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for over 15 years, and we support Mexico’s restrictions.

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biotechnology Food Science Processing 145

Food Tank

MAY 6, 2024

Climate change worsens the issue by reducing the micronutrient content of staple food crops that make up the bulk of most diets globally. Biofortify staple food crops. In addition to being higher in micronutrients, biofortified crops are also bred to be more climate resilient and resistant to environmental stresses.

Food 138

Food biotechnology Crop Seeding 138

Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If only annual crops were perennial , for example, eh? Big IUCN report says that biodiversity and agriculture are in conflict, they don’t really need to be, but it’s really complicated for them not to be. So that’s us all told. If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education , for example, eh?

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Seeding Agriculture Agriculture Crop 198

NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

This rule will disproportionally stifle innovation by publicly supported federal and academic plant breeders and smaller plant breeding companies, inhibiting their development of new varieties, particularly of specialty and other smaller acreage crops. These characteristics have been sought after by plant breeders for centuries.

Seeding 130

Seeding Crop Minor Crop Science 130

Agwired

JUNE 26, 2024

Rice has enjoyed a long career in sales and marketing in the crop protection, seed genetics, biotechnology and application technology sectors. Under Rice’s leadership, AMVAC’s ATBU will continue its commitment to positioning the company’s innovative precision ag technologies as tailored solutions to address evolving market demands.

biotechnology 74

biotechnology Technology Seeding Marketing 74

Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 28, 2024

Which crop biodiversity is used by the food industry throughout the world? A first evidence for legume species. Mainly soy, alas. Which is bad because… Diversified agriculture leads to diversified diets: panel data evidence from Bangladesh.

Grain 224

Grain Cultivation Food Marketing 224

ATTRA

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They published their work in The Plant Biotechnology. Scientists say that two-thirds of global food production is based on just nine crop species, so it’s in the interest of global food security to identify other reliable food sources that can perform well in changing climatic conditions.

Crop 40

Crop biotechnology Mechanics Cultivation 40

The Farmers Daughter USA

DECEMBER 11, 2024

But our ability to bring these transformative crops to market was just dealt a major blow. So what does this mean for the future of bioengineered crops? Bioengineering is one of the modern eras most powerful tools to address food insecurity, climate change, and other sustainability issues. And what can be done about it?

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Family Farming Technology 52

NASDA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

food and agricultural goods, including grains, oilseeds, feed, meat and dairy products, produce, and other specialty crops. Those criteria should include but not be limited to the following: • Maintain reasonable and equitable market access to U.S. Refrain from excessive domestic agricultural subsidies that decrease U.S. market access.

Forestry 130

Forestry Marketing Grain Agriculture 130

Agwired

JANUARY 9, 2025

Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC and Gowan SeedTech LLC announced they have entered into a sale agreement with Gowan acquiring Syngentas FarMore Technology Vegetable Seed Treatment Platform in the United States. locations, offering corn farmers a new mode of nitrogen delivery that complements Heftys trusted lineup of crop input offerings.

Seeding 40

Seeding Technology biotechnology Grain 40

NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Some will have challenges as they seek operating credit for the 2025 crop year. Since the beginning of the year, the harvest price of major crops traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange have fallen by an average of 21% while total production costs remain near record levels. USDA forecasts the U.S.

Farming 130

Farming Farming Grain Supply Chain 130

Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Crop wild relatives in Lebanon: mapping the distribution of Poaceae and Fabaceae priority taxa for conservation planning. Historical Routes for Diversification of Domesticated Chickpea Inferred from Landrace Genomics. Genomics identifies both Indian and Middle Eastern traces in Ethiopian chickpeas.

Maize 203

Maize Cultivation Distribution Crop 203

Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

The two awards recognize biotechnology leaders who are driving cutting-edge breakthroughs in agricultural, environmental, and industrial biotechnology. Nemasphere is the first and only biotechnology trait for SCN, the number one yield-robbing pest in soybeans in the United States. 3-5 in Houston, Texas.

biotechnology 45

biotechnology Technology Yield Tractor 45

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. The History of US Seed Breeding For most of the history of domesticated crops, those who grew crops saved seeds from one growing season to the next.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 106

Agwired

DECEMBER 7, 2023

L-R: Dan Basse, Eric Boeck, Tom Schuler, Jagresh Rana, Tim Glenn Representatives from the seed industry’s four largest companies sat down with Ag Resource Company’s Dan Basse at the American Seed Trade Association Field Crop Seed Convention Tuesday to discuss what the future of the seed industry may hold.

Supply Chain 49

Supply Chain Seeding biotechnology Technology 49

World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population. That’s a problem, because if your microbes get outcompeted in a matter of days, they can’t make a meaningful amount of fertilizer over the crop growing season.

Finance 52

Finance Seeding Fertilizer biotechnology 52