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

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 205

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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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. and internationally.

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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. Increase intake of micronutrient-rich unrefined plant-based foods , including dark green leafy vegetables, legumes, and seeds. Biofortify staple food crops.

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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. He holds a B.S.

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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.

Finance 52

Finance Seeding Fertilizer biotechnology 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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Forestry Marketing Grain Agriculture 130

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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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

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 192

Grain Cultivation Food Marketing 192

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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Farming Farming Grain Supply Chain 130

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

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.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 14, 2023

Chromosome-level genome assembly and population genomic resource to accelerate orphan crop lablab breeding. Two domestication “events,” with the 2-seeded form originating in Ethiopia. NW India is a centre of diversity.

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Cultivation Seeding Crop biotechnology 100

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. And BASF sells a 2.0 Take BASF’s 2.0

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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

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

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. Read More

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Production Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 287

Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa by Aaron Eddens Seeding Empire connects the dots between some of the earliest Green Revolution projects in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s to those taking place across the African continent today. But she retains memories of her mothers kitchen.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

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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Yield Production Harvester Harvest 143

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. When it came time for our [oyster seed] orders to come in, the hatchery said, ‘We had a complete crash. That’s not right.” seaweed industry.

Science 144

Science Farming Farming Harvester 144

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Nayak is recognized for her innovative approach to engaging farmers in demand-driven rice seed systems, from testing and deployment to access and adoption of climate-resilient and nutritious rice varieties. American Seed Trade Association is excited to welcome Martha Malapi as Director, Seed Health & Trade.

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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 billion compared to last year and the seeds business grew 2 percent to $4.8 billion, down $1.2

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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.

Finance 40

Finance Supply Chain biotechnology Agriculture 40

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. Association study of crude seed protein and fat concentration in a USDA pea diversity panel. Or are there?

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Forage Crop Yield Grain 207

Real Agriculture

MAY 10, 2024

Canada has finally decided on how crop varieties developed with gene-editing technology will be handled in the registration and approval process. Announced last week, crops developed using the technique will not be considered a GMO or “novel” and therefore will have a more streamlined path to approval. Read More

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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. (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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biotechnology Ecology Technology Food 124

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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Crop Food biotechnology Seeding 263

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. The association also has over 100 associate and affiliate members, representing all facets of the seed industry.

Seeding 40

Seeding Technology biotechnology Agriculture 40

Food Tank

MARCH 5, 2024

and Canadian challenge is to defend the interests of the biotechnology industry. and Canada want to force Mexico to open its market to all genetically modified foods and seeds. To add to these results, a number of animal feeding trials also find that Bt toxins and GM Bt crops could have toxic effects on mammals.

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biotechnology Food Science Processing 145

Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

Agrela Ecosystems , a startup launched by Nadia Shakoor, PhD, principal investigator, at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced the pilot launch of its flagship product, PheNode.

Science 52

Science biotechnology Technology Marketing 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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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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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.

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Maize Science Food Crop 144

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.

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Beverage Seeding Crop biotechnology 179