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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?”

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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.

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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.

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Seeding Yield Technology Farming 196

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ?

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Readers will learn about the programs supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, field trials of hybrid Maize in Kenya, and the worlds largest biotechnology companies. Ultimately, author Aaron Eddens argues that the Green Revolution has failed to end hunger and address global inequalities.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The 2024 Global Centers awards focus on advancing bioeconomy research to solve global challenges, whether by increasing crop resilience, converting plant matter or other biomass into fuel, or paving the way for biofoundries to scale up applications of biotechnology for societal benefit.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 12, 2024

Surrounding yourself with exceptional people and building a winning team. It’s a recipe for success that Saskatchewan-born Lorne Hepworth has followed through three successful careers and now an appointment as Member of the Order of Canada.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

On a summer day in downtown Salinas, California, a group of farmers, biotechnology start-ups and pesticide corporations gathered to talk about the benefits of biology. Microbes can share genetic material with each other far more readily than crops and can travel great distances on the wind.

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World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Leveraging Corteva s global leadership in agricultural innovation along with Gates Ag One s mission to accelerate the most promising agricultural innovations into the hands of smallholder farmers, the collaboration aims to lead the development of novel seed technologies, to boost sustainable crop productivity while building climate resilience.

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Agriculture Agriculture biotechnology Technology 52

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