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Mexico Amends Constitution to Prohibit GM Corn Seeds

Food Tank

APRIL 7, 2025

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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Brainfood: QMS, Seed viability, Genotyping, Taxonomy, FAIR data, Evaluation data, Lentil data, Indian cryobank, Home genebank, Dry chain, Botanical gardens, Environmental monitoring, Bending the curve

Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A pragmatic protocol for seed viability monitoring in ex situ plant genebanks. Share a Tiny Space of Your Freezer to Preserve Seed Diversity. Meanwhile, at the other end of the technology continuum… Applications of dry chain technology to maintain high seed viability in tropical climates. Is it certified, though?

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Brainfood: Seed quantity, Seed quality, Seed testing, Seed sampling, Cryo review, Potato diversity, Coconut cryo, Apple genebanks, Pear vulnerability, Pear restoration, Celebrity conservation, Indigenous rematriation, Farmers’ Rights

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Optimizing the accession-level quantity of seeds to put into storage to minimize seed (gene)bank regeneration or re-collection. = [n vt × 3]+[n d × (y × x)]+ q min if you must know. A pragmatic protocol for seed viability monitoring in ex situ plant genebanks. Formulas are good, but you need some flexibility too. No problem.

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Nibbles: SeedLinked, Heritage Seed Library, HarvestPlus, Enset, EBI, Saharan/Sahelian flora, Pollen, Food & climate, Food prices, Moonraker, Svalbard eats, Devex does seeds, CGRFA ABS survey

Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 8, 2024

SeedLinked : an app to source cool vegetable seeds. Want to become a variety champion for the Heritage Seed Library? Maybe there’s a nice view of the Seed Vault though? The latest Devex newsletter has lots of stuff on food prices and prizes and seed vaults. Where’s the app though?

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Nibbles: Cropscapes, Ecuador cacao, Nigerian yams, Lima bean show, Mesopotamian cooking, Nepal seed banks, RNA integrity, China genebanks, Cryo comics, Greening

Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 21, 2024

The community seed banks of Nepal have a new website. A new project is testing RNA integrity number (RIN) as a metric of seed aging for a bunch of rare wild plants. One day maybe community seed banks will be using it. What if you can’t work out what the crops are, though? As in Mesopotamian recipe books , for example.

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Nibbles: IUCN report, Land Institute, Climate smart beer, BioLeft seeds, Cryo coral

Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If only improved seeds were open source , for example, eh? If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education , for example, eh? Apart from anything else we could still have beer. No word on the role of perennial barley though. If only we could cryopreserve coral , for example, eh? Wait, what?

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How Should Gene-Edited Seeds be Regulated?

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. The seed has been synthetically altered.” CRISPR editing of seeds. The GE process is like tweaking a Word document.

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Nibbles: Fonio beer, ICRISAT seed kits, Dark Emu, China potatoes, 3D genebank, Bioculture, Microbiome genebank, Nutrition, Michigan kiwi

Agricultural Biodiversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

ICRISAT providing Niger and Chad with sorghum and pearl millet seed kits. You can make beer from fonio. Fonio next? No, Echinochloa turneriana next. In Australia. I love the Dark Emu Hypothesis , and not least for its name. CIP is helping China improve its potato crop.

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Poll: What problem should gene editing fix first?

Real Agriculture

MAY 10, 2024

Now that plant breeders and seed companies know. 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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Coalition letter encouraging continued U.S. membership in FAO

NASDA

APRIL 24, 2025

In parallel, the IPPC sets global standards used to control pests, diseases, and weeds in shipments of many major agricultural commodities, including grains, planting seeds, fresh fruits and vegetables, and ornamental plants. These standards are critical for protecting U.S. food security.

Manufacturing

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Blois introduces bill aimed at speeding up approvals of new agriculture products

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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Nibbles: Svalbard Global Seed Vault, CePaCT genebank, CIAT genebank, Australia rice genebank, Bangladesh genebank, Maize mutants garden, Inoculants genebank, Millets community seedbank, Payments for Agrobiodiversity Conservation Services, Triadic Comparison of Technology Options, Crop diversity, Intercropping, Agroforestry, Diet diversity, World economy, Sustainable food

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Never thought I’d see the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Psychology Today , yet here we are. The Pacific’s regional genebank is set for more work on lesser-known crops. 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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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I:

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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Innovation in Gene Editing and Plant Breeding

Jayson Lusk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Director, Seed Biotechnology Center and Associate Director, Plant Breeding Center, University of California, Davis Richard Lawrence, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Scientific Affairs and Policy, American Seed Trade Association Alison Van Eenennaam, Ph.D., The main speakers included: Allen Van Deynze, Ph.

biotechnology

biotechnology Seeding Science Yield

Brainfood: Croplands, Satellite phenotyping, Farm size, Bt double, Scaling up, Opinion leaders, Gendered knowledge, OFSP, Ethiopia sorghum diversity, Banana bunchy top, Climate change & pathogens, Bean pathogens, Mixtures, Rewards

Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

Just agricultural science: The green revolution, biotechnologies, and marginalized farmers in Africa. Assessment of seed system interventions for biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) in Malawi. Likely decline in the number of farms globally by the middle of the century. Thanks, satellites. Can you tell OFSP from space?

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Brainfood: Beverage edition

Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Seed morphometrics unravels the evolutionary history of grapevine in France. Characterization and analysis of a Commiphora species germinated from an ancient seed suggests a possible connection to a species mentioned in the Bible. Thousand-year-old seed is a distinct and possibly long-lost species of myrrh.

Beverage

Beverage Seeding Crop biotechnology

Far Eastern Agriculture - Untitled Article

Far Eastern Agriculture

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Biotechnology company, Qi Biodesign recently announced the completion of its million dollar Series A funding round to pioneer next-gen genome editing technologies The company has raised a total of US$75mn across its Seed, Series Pre-A , and Series A stages.

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Brainfood: Food insecurity drivers, Agroecology & fertilizers, Overselling GMOs, Genomic prediction, Striga breeding, Farmers’ preferences, Farmers’ WtP, Diversity metrics

Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Farmer Risk Preferences and Willingness to Pay for African Rice Landrace Seed: An Experimental Choice Analysis. Farmers’ heterogeneous preferences for traits of improved varieties: Informing demand-oriented crop breeding in Tanzania. Breeders need to take into account farmer diversity too. Farmers are willing to pay for diversity.

Agroecology

Agroecology Fertilizer Food Crop Yield

Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

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.” and internationally.

Finance

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Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

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.”

Finance

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Mexico’s Precaution on GM Corn Safety Is Justified

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. This article was written by Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, a project of MakeWay Charitable Society.

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Precision Ag News 1/9

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.

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AMVAC® Promotes Rick Rice to Business Unit Leader

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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Letter Regarding Plant-Incorporated Protectants Rule

NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

Sincerely, Agricultural Retailers Association American Farm Bureau Federation American Seed Trade Association American Society of Plant Biologists American Soybean Association American Sugarbeet Growers Association Arkansas Rice Growers Association Biotechnology Innovation Organization California Avocado Commission California Citrus Mutual California (..)

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Coalition Letter to Senate Requesting Full Funding for CODEX

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 (..)

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Food biotechnology Science

Letter regarding the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework

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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Far Eastern Agriculture - Untitled Article

Far Eastern Agriculture

JANUARY 16, 2024

Biotechnology company, UniFAHS recently announced that it has raised more than US$1.4mn in its seed funding round, propelling the company forward in its mission of growth and transforming food production using environmentally friendly and sustainable approaches

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Brainfood: Breeding edition

Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Innovation and Technological Mismatch: Experimental Evidence from Improved Crop Seeds. 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.

Crop

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Op-Ed | Unintended Consequences of Environmentally Friendly Diets

Food Tank

MAY 6, 2024

Increase intake of micronutrient-rich unrefined plant-based foods , including dark green leafy vegetables, legumes, and seeds. Biofortification (also called nutrient enrichment) of crops is the use of conventional plant breeding, agronomic practices, or biotechnology to increase crop’s nutrient density. Biofortify staple food crops.

Food

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The Majors Take the Stage at ASTA FCSC

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.

Supply Chain

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Brainfood: Ag research ROI, CGIAR & climate change, Crop species diversity, Training plant breeders, AI & plant breeding, Wheat breeding review, Wheat landraces, CIMMYT wheat breeding, Wheat D genome, Forages pre-breeding, Impact of new varieties, Two long-term barley experiment, High protein peas, Watermelon super-pangenome, Resynthesizing mustard, Consumer preference and breeding

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Association study of crude seed protein and fat concentration in a USDA pea diversity panel. This one shows that a hundred years of natural selection has massively narrowed genetic diversity. Why aren’t there long-term wheat experiments? Or are there? Really high protein peas are possible. Let’s check again in a hundred years?

Forage

Forage Crop Yield Grain

Coalition Letter to Reauthorize the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program

NASDA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Sincerely, National Corn Growers Association National Pork Producers Council Agricultural Retailers Association Almond Alliance American Feed Industry Association American Seed Trade Association American Soybean Association Biotechnology Innovation Organization Corn Refiners Association Crop Life America Farmers for Free Trade Independent Bakers Association (..)

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

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Coalition Letter on President’s Export Council’s Agricultural Trade Proposal

NASDA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Sincerely, American Farm Bureau Federation American Feed Industry Association American Seed Trade Association American Soybean Association Biotechnology Innovation Organization Corn Re?iners We look forward to working together to restore U.S. agriculture exports, and build a stronger, more resilient U.S.

Agriculture

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When might farmers access gene-edited varieties, and will they know what they’re growing?

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?

Crop

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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. 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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Lorne Hepworth says journey to Order of Canada started in 4-H

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 12, 2024

Surrounding yourself with exceptional people and building a winning team. It’s a recipe for success that Saskatchewan-born Lorne Hepworth has followed through three successful careers and now an appointment as Member of the Order of Canada.

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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

AMPI) Association of Equipment Manufacturers Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Austin Chapter 10 IWLA BASF Corporation Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.)

Farming

Farming Farming Seeding Ruralism

Herbicide Tolerant Camelina Supports Large Acre Production

Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

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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Acre Biofuel Production Crop Rotation

Brainfood: Vanilla diversity, Moth bean diversity, Lablab genome, Wheat allergens, Strampelli, Core collections, Collection structure, ITK, Sambal diversity

Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 14, 2023

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

Cultivation

Cultivation Seeding Crop biotechnology

Brainfood: Nutrition edition

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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Gates Agricultural Innovations and Corteva Announce New Collaboration

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.

Agriculture

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The United States Must Respect Indigenous Rights in Mexico GM Corn Case

Food Tank

APRIL 10, 2024

Yields of non-GM corn are comparable to GM corn , according to seed industry sources, and can earn a premium price estimated at 10-20 percent higher than GM varieties. But corn is more than a food ingredient in Mexico. Corn holds tremendous cultural, symbolic, and spiritual value for Mexico’s Indigenous peoples.

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Maize Food biotechnology 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. version of its 40-million-acre Poncho®/VOTiVO® seed treatment that includes a GE bacteria aimed at improving plant health. And BASF sells a 2.0 Take BASF’s 2.0

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Mexico Amends Constitution to Prohibit GM Corn Seeds

Brainfood: QMS, Seed viability, Genotyping, Taxonomy, FAIR data, Evaluation data, Lentil data, Indian cryobank, Home genebank, Dry chain, Botanical gardens, Environmental monitoring, Bending the curve

Trending Sources

Brainfood: Seed quantity, Seed quality, Seed testing, Seed sampling, Cryo review, Potato diversity, Coconut cryo, Apple genebanks, Pear vulnerability, Pear restoration, Celebrity conservation, Indigenous rematriation, Farmers’ Rights

Nibbles: SeedLinked, Heritage Seed Library, HarvestPlus, Enset, EBI, Saharan/Sahelian flora, Pollen, Food & climate, Food prices, Moonraker, Svalbard eats, Devex does seeds, CGRFA ABS survey

Nibbles: Cropscapes, Ecuador cacao, Nigerian yams, Lima bean show, Mesopotamian cooking, Nepal seed banks, RNA integrity, China genebanks, Cryo comics, Greening

Nibbles: IUCN report, Land Institute, Climate smart beer, BioLeft seeds, Cryo coral

How Should Gene-Edited Seeds be Regulated?

Nibbles: Fonio beer, ICRISAT seed kits, Dark Emu, China potatoes, 3D genebank, Bioculture, Microbiome genebank, Nutrition, Michigan kiwi

Poll: What problem should gene editing fix first?

Coalition letter encouraging continued U.S. membership in FAO

Blois introduces bill aimed at speeding up approvals of new agriculture products

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

Innovation in Gene Editing and Plant Breeding

Brainfood: Croplands, Satellite phenotyping, Farm size, Bt double, Scaling up, Opinion leaders, Gendered knowledge, OFSP, Ethiopia sorghum diversity, Banana bunchy top, Climate change & pathogens, Bean pathogens, Mixtures, Rewards

Brainfood: Beverage edition

Far Eastern Agriculture - Untitled Article

Brainfood: Food insecurity drivers, Agroecology & fertilizers, Overselling GMOs, Genomic prediction, Striga breeding, Farmers’ preferences, Farmers’ WtP, Diversity metrics

Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

Mexico’s Precaution on GM Corn Safety Is Justified

Precision Ag News 1/9

AMVAC® Promotes Rick Rice to Business Unit Leader

Letter Regarding Plant-Incorporated Protectants Rule

Coalition Letter to Senate Requesting Full Funding for CODEX

Letter regarding the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework

Far Eastern Agriculture - Untitled Article

Brainfood: Breeding edition

Op-Ed | Unintended Consequences of Environmentally Friendly Diets

The Majors Take the Stage at ASTA FCSC

Coalition Letter to Reauthorize the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program

Precision Ag News 10/23

Coalition Letter on President’s Export Council’s Agricultural Trade Proposal

When might farmers access gene-edited varieties, and will they know what they’re growing?

Precision Ag News 6/12

Lorne Hepworth says journey to Order of Canada started in 4-H

Farm Bill Coalition Letter

Herbicide Tolerant Camelina Supports Large Acre Production

Brainfood: Vanilla diversity, Moth bean diversity, Lablab genome, Wheat allergens, Strampelli, Core collections, Collection structure, ITK, Sambal diversity

Brainfood: Nutrition edition

Gates Agricultural Innovations and Corteva Announce New Collaboration

The United States Must Respect Indigenous Rights in Mexico GM Corn Case

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

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