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Mexico Amends Constitution to Prohibit GM Corn Seeds

Food Tank

The Mexican government has amended its constitution to prohibit the use of genetically modified (GM) corn seeds. The reform strengthens previous legal action against GM seeds by enshrining the ban in the constitution. The post Mexico Amends Constitution to Prohibit GM Corn Seeds appeared first on Food Tank.

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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

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.

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Precision Ag News 10/23

Agwired

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. , sales of Ag tractors decreased 19.2 Nutrien Ag Solutions, Inc.

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Precision Ag News 6/12

Agwired

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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Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

Civil Eats

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. Volunteers help to hand-harvest the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers 2023-2024 sugar kelp haul on New York’s Shinnecock Bay. That’s not right.”

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Herbicide Tolerant Camelina Supports Large Acre Production

Agwired

Yield10 intends to harvest the plants and collect seed yield and oil yield data in the weeks ahead with the goal of selecting lead and back-up stacked HT spring E3902 Camelina lines for commercial development and seed scale-up. Read more from Yield10

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Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

Civil Eats

Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.

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