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 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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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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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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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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biotechnology Technology Seeding Marketing 74

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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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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Agroecology Fertilizer Food Crop Yield 148

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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Crop biotechnology Mechanics Cultivation 40

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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Forestry Marketing Grain Agriculture 130

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 141

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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Grain Cultivation Food Marketing 167

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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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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biotechnology Technology Yield Pesticide 45

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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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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Farming Farming Technology Yield 63

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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Finance Seeding Fertilizer biotechnology 52

Agwired

MAY 16, 2024

In response to President Biden’s Executive Order 14081, “Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a plan to update, streamline, and clarify their regulations and oversight mechanisms for products of biotechnology.

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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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Pesticide Fertilizer Acre Crop 98

Agwired

MAY 10, 2024

In response to President Biden’s Executive Order 14081, “Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a plan to update, streamline, and clarify their regulations and oversight mechanisms for products of biotechnology.

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biotechnology Mechanics Seeding Food 40

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

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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Maize Cultivation Distribution Crop 163

Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 11, 2023

Comment in Nature about how we are not taking fungal diseases of crops sufficiently seriously. Bozakmin , the best of the berries , used to contrast late stage capitalism with Indigenous gift economies. Well worth the long read. There’s a place in Ireland with a 6000 year history of farming. Well maybe that’s rounded up a bit.

Farming 100

Farming Farming Crop biotechnology 100

NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Sincerely, AgCountry Farm Credit Services AgCredit, ACA AgGeorgia Farm Credit AgriBank, FCB AgriBusiness Association of Kentucky Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agricultural Leaders of Michigan Agricultural Retailers Association Agriculture Energy Coalition Agri-Mark, Inc.

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Farming Farming Seeding Ruralism 130

Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2024

USDA, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a new web-based tool on the Unified Website for Biotechnology Regulation for companies that develop microbial biotechnology products.

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biotechnology Seeding Distribution Agriculture 49

Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yield10 is executing a program to develop and commercialize spring and winter Camelina varieties with stacked herbicide traits to achieve large acreage adoption of the crop in North America. Group 2 herbicides are commonly used to manage weeds in cereal and other crop rotations and can persist in the soil for months following use.

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Acre Biofuel Crop Rotation Production 52

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Bayer and Pairwise, a ag and food company that offers gene-editing for the U.S. market, have announced a five year deal to further develop short-stature corn. This deal will focus on gene-edited, short-stature corn for future use in Bayer’s Preceon Smart Corn System. Short-stature corn – with a targeted height of 30 to 40 percent. Read More

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Marketing Food biotechnology Technology 246

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

Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 14, 2023

Chromosome-level genome assembly and population genomic resource to accelerate orphan crop lablab breeding. Genetic diversity, population structure, and genome-wide association study for the flowering trait in a diverse panel of 428 moth bean ( Vigna aconitifolia ) accessions using genotyping by sequencing. NW India is a centre of diversity.

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Cultivation Seeding Crop biotechnology 100

Far Eastern Agriculture

MARCH 20, 2024

German pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, Bayer recently announced the launch of an expert GenAI system to benefit farmers and up-level agronomists in their daily work By utilising proprietary agronomic data, the company has been able to train a large language model (LLM).

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biotechnology Technology Science Production 40

World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

On both sides of the Atlantic, the chronic lack of water for crops is a direct threat to global food security, if we hope to cultivate a future where abundance coexists harmoniously with the preservation of our planet, we must act take urgent action.”, warns Déchant, CEO and Co-Founder of Elicit Plant.

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Cultivation biotechnology Yield Crop 52

Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Coffee plants usually take three to four years to produce their first yield, making the crop a gamble at startup, but rising global demand may provide the incentive. Coffee worldwide is increasingly grown alongside other crops, such as avocados, plantains, cacao, sugarcane, nuts, citrus, and spices. Mexico has nearly 1.5

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to investigate the climate change mitigation potential of switchgrass cropping systems. A new article researched and co-authored by American Soybean Association staff explores how farmers can potentially benefit from new biotechnology innovations.

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Finance Supply Chain Agriculture Agriculture 40

Agwired

MARCH 29, 2024

billion, up 5 percent driven by Syngenta Crop Protection and by strong growth of Syngenta Group China. Syngenta Crop Protection sales in FY 2023 experienced a modest 5 percent decrease in comparison to the previous year, totaling $15.5 Syngenta Group sales for full year 2023 were $32.2 billion, down $1.2 billion in 2023.

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biotechnology Agriculture Agriculture Acre 45

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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Production Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 290

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Department of Agriculture, in a number of roles, including Branch Chief of APHIS Biotechnology Regulatory Services. Northern Soy Marketing (NSM) recently held its inaugural Midwest Crop Tour in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska for group of Southeast Asian buyers. Martha joins ASTA after 10 years at the U.S.

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Manufacturing Supply Chain Seeding Harvester 45

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

What’s more, the fibrous plant, which can grow two feet a day, also pulls anywhere from five to 20 times more carbon from the atmosphere than any terrestrial crop, something that leading marine scientists are working to quantify right now. Those early studies have impacted the growth of mariculture studies globally.

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