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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa. 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.

Agroecology

Agroecology Fertilizer Food Crop Yield

Letter Regarding Plant-Incorporated Protectants Rule

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

Seeding Crop Science Minor Crop

Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

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. Current manufacturing is largely based on fossil fuels and leads to over a gigaton of CO2 equivalent emissions and many damaging environmental consequences such as fertilizer run-off and eutrophication.

Finance

Finance Seeding Fertilizer biotechnology

Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

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. Current manufacturing is largely based on fossil fuels and leads to over a gigaton of CO2 equivalent emissions and many damaging environmental consequences such as fertilizer run-off and eutrophication.

Finance

Finance Seeding Fertilizer biotechnology

The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction

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

Farming Farming Technology Yield

Op-Ed: Biologicals 2.0: Why Genetically Engineered Soil Microbes Are Concerning

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. While the realm of pesticides and fertilizers has been dominated by chemistry for the past eight decades, it seems like biology may soon have its day.

Pesticide

Pesticide Fertilizer Acre Crop

Farm Bill Coalition Letter

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

Farming Farming Grain Supply Chain

Precision Ag News 6/12

Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

The two awards recognize biotechnology leaders who are driving cutting-edge breakthroughs in agricultural, environmental, and industrial biotechnology. potato can also reduce the environmental impact of the growing process without as many fertilizers and pesticides needed to maintain the potato during storage.

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biotechnology Technology Yield Pesticide

Precision Ag News 10/23

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. Millborn Seeds, Inc. , Nutrien Ag Solutions, Inc.

biotechnology

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Elicit Plant’s CEO on the Urgent Need to Address Water Access Challenges

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.

Cultivation

Cultivation biotechnology Yield Crop

Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

Rich in minerals, kelp grows quickly and doesn’t require fertilizer. 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.

Farming

Farming Farming Science Harvester

The American Chestnut Tree is Coming Back. Who is It For?

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. White paper bags festooned the taller trees, their flowers covered to manage fertilization.

biotechnology

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Precision Ag News 8/30

Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

Forty years ago, a desire to change the fertilizer industry brought Troy Bancroft and his father-in-law, Douglas Cook, together to start a groundbreaking company. Arva Intelligence Corp. Arva will work with MillPont, leveraging their environmental claims clearing solution platform, Atlas.

Science

Science biotechnology Technology Marketing

The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

It alleges that Mexico’s decree constitutes a trade violation that infringes on the superseding rights of US farmers and biotechnology companies. What happens is this: The genetic code of Bt seeds are programmed to produce toxins that attack the stomach linings of crop-munching caterpillars. But those days have ended.

Maize

Maize Science Food Crop

From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I:

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.

Seeding

Seeding Agriculture Agriculture Food

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Letter Regarding Plant-Incorporated Protectants Rule

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Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction

Op-Ed: Biologicals 2.0: Why Genetically Engineered Soil Microbes Are Concerning

Farm Bill Coalition Letter

Precision Ag News 6/12

Precision Ag News 10/23

Elicit Plant’s CEO on the Urgent Need to Address Water Access Challenges

Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

The American Chestnut Tree is Coming Back. Who is It For?

Precision Ag News 8/30

The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I:

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