Jayson Lusk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Yesterday I had the privilege of moderating a panel discussion focused on gene editing hosted by the Farm Foundation. Director, Seed Biotechnology Center and Associate Director, Plant Breeding Center, University of California, Davis Richard Lawrence, Ph.D., The main speakers included: Allen Van Deynze, Ph.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. We look forward to working with you to bring a bipartisan 2024 farm bill to fruition. Thank you for considering our request.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss. are essential for sustainable high-yield farming. Another example of the benefits of FAIR evaluation data. And of botanical gardens. And genebanks (and maybe botanical gardens too, why not?) Certify that.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Moseley sets out to answer why so many approaches to farming and food policy in sub-Saharan Africa have failed. Planning Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems: From Soil to Soil by Julia Freedgood Author Julia Feedgood highlights how to build resilience, improve the environmental outcomes of farming, and address economic disparities.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ian Affleck is vice president of biotechnology for CropLife Canada , a trade association representing developers and distributors of plant science innovations and plant biotechnology. Alison Squires at her farm, Upland Organics. But genome-edited (GE) breeding falls somewhere in the middle, depending on how you look at it.

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

We look forward to working together to secure a framework that works for American farmers, workers, producers, exporters and consumers, while we continue to seek a broader resumption of comprehensive FTAs to more robustly advance a worker-centered trade policy driven by U.S. priorities. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But will all these genebanks lead to a new Green Revolution … …or organic farming ? Genebank scientists says we need more collaboration. Goa thinks they need a new mango genebank. The USA already has an apple genebank. Maybe both.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 11, 2023

There’s a place in Ireland with a 6000 year history of farming. Well worth the long read. Comment in Nature about how we are not taking fungal diseases of crops sufficiently seriously. Well maybe that’s rounded up a bit.

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NASDA

MAY 21, 2024

Sincerely, American Bakers Association American Beverage Association American Farm Bureau Federation American Feed Industry Association American Seed Trade Association American Soybean Association American Spice Trade Association Animal Health Institute Association for Dressings and Sauces Biotechnology Innovation Organization Consumer Brands Association (..)

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Agritecture Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Eating less factory-farmed red meat, which is 2-5x more resource-intensive than other animal proteins, and reducing food waste, which globally would be the third largest emitter behind the US and China, are the lowest-hanging fruits to reducing our food-related climate impact. In its March 2023 report on U.S.

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NASDA

APRIL 24, 2024

agriculture is foundational to the American economy – reaching far beyond farms and rural communities to support more than 48 million jobs across the country. Recommitting to an aggressive trade agenda, holding parties accountable to commitments, and improving trade enforcement mechanisms are critical steps that need to be taken. agriculture.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 28, 2024

…promoting diversified farming systems and market participation is good for women’s empowerment and better diets. 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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NASDA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

agriculture is foundational to the American economy – reaching far beyond farms and rural communities to support more than 46 million jobs across the country. farms and ranches are the backbone of America’s food and ag sector, the impact of decreased exports and resulting economic fallout reverberates throughout the economy.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

While farm tech may conjure images of GPS-driven tractors, robot harvesters, and biotechnology, a new competition in California is calling on innovators to refocus their attention away from scaling up Industrial Ag and towards empowering small farms.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 20, 2023

” Itle was raised on her family’s dairy farm, participating in all the chores that come with the job from milking the cows to delivering the final products. The farm is not, however, the only commonality Itle shares with her family. “I territories.

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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. Emergent Connext announced the launch of its groundbreaking Internet-of-Things (IoT) network solution for AgTech in California’s Central Valley, revolutionizing the way farming is done.

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

Thank you, and we stand ready to assist you in cultivating a risk-appropriate, science-based regulatory system for these vital innovations.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

Kelp’s Tangled Lines Read all the stories in our series: Overview: The Promise and Possible Pitfalls of American Kelp Farming Our four-part in-depth series examines the growth of the U.S. Seaweed farming, a longstanding tradition in Asia for more than a hundred years, is now gaining a place on U.S. seaweed industry.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Deep genotyping reveals specific adaptation footprints of conventional and organic farming in barley populations — an evolutionary plant breeding approach. Here’s an interesting methodology to evaluate the impact of new varieties designed and developed by AI (or not).

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The Farmers Daughter USA

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The lawsuit, brought by anti-bioengineering activists (pretending to be worried about family farms), reinstates a regulatory framework in place since 1986, while the technology was only in its infancy and not yet even commercially available. Department of Agriculture through its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

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Agwired

JANUARY 9, 2025

Scott Sanders, general manager of Peterson Farms Seed , was named president of the Independent Professional Seed Association (IPSA) at the organizations annual conference. based agricultural biotechnology company specializing in soybean trait discovery and development, has announced its rebranding as The Traits Company.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Climate change causes labor problems and hurts farm owners, too. With increasingly tight margins, farm owners can’t afford the upgrades needed to make their coffee production more water-efficient, and they can’t buy new cultivars that resist coffee rust and heat. Lower yields mean less cash flow, contributing to wage stagnation.

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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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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“The team of talented biotechnology experts at Switch have assembled from around the world to develop an innovative approach that dramatically improves the performance and cost-effectiveness of biofertilizers, tackling a significant climate challenge.”

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NASDA

MARCH 8, 2024

This fundamental objective is under attack, and we must stand together to combat the tactics of those countries who reject science risk-based decision-making, specifically the European Union and its Farm-to-Fork policies.

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“The team of talented biotechnology experts at Switch have assembled from around the world to develop an innovative approach that dramatically improves the performance and cost-effectiveness of biofertilizers, tackling a significant climate challenge.”

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. Meanwhile, settlers cut down chestnuts for many reasons — to clear space for towns and farms; to build fence posts, telegraph poles, and railroads; or just to gather the nuts more easily.

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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. Biologicals are farm inputs that come from living organisms like plants and bacteria rather than from fossil fuels, the source of nearly all modern pesticides and fertilizers.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The first statement is written by William Burke, a Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at Michigan State University and the second by Brian Halweil, the Commercial Director for Belltown Farms and a Strategic Associate at Astanor Ventures. From William Burke : I hardly feel qualified to say anything about Wally.

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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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Farming First

JANUARY 3, 2024

The post Climate Change, Agriculture and Innovative Solutions: Emily Rees Speaks at COP28 appeared first on Farming First. Emily Rees, CropLife International, engaged in a conversation on the critical connection between climate change and agriculture.

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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

Encouraging results from a three-year on-farm sustainability project show that implementation of conservation practices can have a lasting impact on the natural resources of the farm and surrounding areas. Corteva Agriscience announced the expansion of its U.S.

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World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Visit the World Agri-Tech website for full details of each start-up’s technology and specialized areas, plus funding rounds to date.

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World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The consequences of this reality reveal the fragility of a farming system dependent on an increasingly capricious resource. The time has come for our farming to adapt to this ‘new climate deal’ and redefine its relationship with water. On both sides of the Atlantic, the chronic lack of water for crops is already a real challenge.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A new report from the Global Forum on Farm Policy & Innovation (GFFPI) highlights the complexities of balancing trade and sustainability objectives, emphasizing the pressing need to align trade rules with sustainability goals while avoiding unintended consequences. and incite.ag , to its growing network of associate members.

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Agwired

MARCH 29, 2024

Over the course of his NAWG internship, which concludes in May, Lee has been involved in numerous visits to Capitol Hill, NAWG’s winter meeting, Commodity Classic, and policy work related to the Farm Bill and appropriations process. The Pecan Breeding and Genetics Program of the U.S. We look forward to your registration.

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

A new article researched and co-authored by American Soybean Association staff explores how farmers can potentially benefit from new biotechnology innovations. It considers how plant molecular farming can benefit U.S. The new shop provides a user-friendly platform for customers worldwide.

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