Food Tank

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

After all, crop genetic diversity is “the very foundation of agriculture,” says Nora Castañeda-Álvarez, Project Manager of Seeds for Resilience at The Crop Trust. Seed saving is how we can regain control over our food production and build resilient local food systems. We must remember: Saving seeds is saving culture.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Environmental Defense Fund Farm Journal Foundation Florida Citrus Mutual Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association National Association of State Departments of Agriculture National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research National Grange National Organic Coalition, Inc.

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

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Seeds of knowledge: paving the way to integrated historical and conservation science research. Conserving the genetic diversity of domesticated species needs to combine history and science. Co-conserving Indigenous and local knowledge systems with seeds. Citizen science to the rescue? Maize and precolonial Africa.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 3, 2024

ClimMob: Software to support experimental citizen science in agriculture. Simulating pollen flow and field sampling constraints helps revise seed sampling recommendations for conserving genetic diversity. Fancy software and analysis can suggest changes to seed sampling strategies to take into account limited pollen flow.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The 2022 Student Organic Seed Symposium and the 2021 Northeast Organic Seed Conference built robust and lasting collaborations. Exploring Uncharted Knowledge Gaps Working with limited funding, OREI and ORG have enabled tremendous strides in advancing the science and practice of organic farming and ranching over the past two decades.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

A 2020 paper in the National Academy of Sciences’ journal found that over half of the 600 CWRs identified in the study were either endangered or threatened. Arizona has been at the forefront of conservation efforts, protecting CWRs on public lands like the WCBA, at botanical gardens like at the Desert Museum, and at seed banks.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 31, 2024

Minnesota Minute: Organic leaders honored; Allerson to receive Science in Practice Award; West Central Ag signs letter of intent to join CHS.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences genebank fills some gaps. And yes, seeds are indeed alive. I wonder if any of those new accessions are “ opportunity crops.” ” Because they are sorely needed, for example in Africa. Which is not to say working on staples like maize isn’t cool. Just ask CAAS.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Land Values: How does a professional farm manager make seed selection decisions?

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Specialism in science being what it is, it’s understandably unusual to see papers which combine combine analysis of genetic diversity in humans over time with that of crops, or indeed livestock. It’s less understandable why it should also be unusual in science journalism, and examples should be celebrated.

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USDA Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

With that seed of interest planted, she took agriculture classes throughout high school, grew and maintained her garden, showed livestock, and cross-bred tomatoes. She eventually got her degree in agriculture from Prairie View A&M University with a concentration in plant and soil science.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

That’s when seeds go into the ground. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of seeds that get sown in the fall, and without rain, they’re not going to germinate,” said Amy Hepworth, owner of Hepworth Farms, a seventh-generation family farm located just off the Hudson River in New York state. This story was originally published by Grist.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 19, 2024

The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership at Kew Gardens also has a bunch of training opportunities. And indeed other offers from Wageningen, such as this on seed systems. A couple of online courses are available, on the Treaty itself and on Farmers’ Rights. Then there’s USDA’s GRIN-U.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Accelerate the speed to market of new elite germplasm by increasing the scale of parent seed production over competitors’ technology. Hybrid seeds are created by crossing two genetically different parents – to ultimately produce more resilient, higher yielding plants for farmers. Hard Red Winter testing in NE, KS, CO, OK.

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Food Tank

MARCH 1, 2024

Especially in recent years, spending time with my hands in the soil—tending to seeds and seedlings—can feel beautiful and almost spiritual. To read more about Indigenous cultivation, check out Iwigara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science by Enrique Salmón. Where do you source seeds?

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Jayson Lusk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Director, Seed Biotechnology Center and Associate Director, Plant Breeding Center, University of California, Davis Richard Lawrence, Ph.D., Head of Genome Editing, Yield, Disease, and Quality Research, Bayer Crop Science Fan-Li Chou, Ph. The main speakers included: Allen Van Deynze, Ph.

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NASDA

JUNE 22, 2023

Letter Dear Chairs and Ranking Members, As organizations concerned about the future of food and agricultural science, the undersigned are writing to express our support for the America Grows Act of 2023 (S.1628), food and agricultural sector which threaten our affordable, safe food supply, farmers’ livelihoods and national security.

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

EPA’s newly published regulation creating “PIPs created through genetic engineering from a sexually compatible plant” and “loss-of-function PIPs” is not risk-based, science-based and focuses on process of development rather than product. We ask that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that U.S.

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Farming First

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

According to a survey of the global seed sector, new plant breeding breakthroughs are likely to boost food security in the next 20 years. The post Breakthroughs in Crop Breeding That Boost Food Security Likely in Next 20 Years, Says Global Seed Sector appeared first on Farming First.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

New citizen science initiative enhances flowering onset predictions for fruit trees in Great Britain. An assessment of the implementation of the EU policy for conservation varieties from 2009 to 2023 and its relationship to Geographical Indications. Few European GIs use conservation varieties (i.e. Imagine doing this for European landraces.

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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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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Drawing from decades of field research, he argues that the answer is in strategies that are based in colonial agricultural science. Moseley sets out to answer why so many approaches to farming and food policy in sub-Saharan Africa have failed. Food Activism Today: Sustainability, Climate Change, and Social Justice by Donald M.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the protein category, the new guidelines move meat, poultry, and eggs to the bottom tier, below seafood, nuts, seeds, and soy products. After Fauci and Francis Collins' anti-science (don't you love it?) And you can spend days trying to find a fat person. These new guidelines demonize red meat especially.

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

million seed round in 2022. AgZens system enables 30-50% savings on pesticides in row crops while enabling better weed and disease control resulting in improved yields – all made possible by AgZens expertise in interfacial science, AI, and computer vision.

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Agri-tech

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Our Friday Seminar on 4th October at 11:30am is Embryo-endosperm communication in developing seeds: Establishing the boundaries of an ambiguous relationship with Dr. Gwyneth Ingram, ENS de Lyon Location: Merton Auditorium and Zoom Speaker: Gwyneth Ingram, ENS de Lyon Bio: After obtaining a Natural Sciences degree at the University of Cambridge I carried (..)

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Farmers, for example, are experimenting with the wild seed relatives of domestic crops that may be able to withstand extreme weather. Seeds From Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change The hardy wild cousins of domesticated crops can teach us how to adapt to a hotter, more unpredictable future.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) is celebrating a prestigious award recently bestowed on Bill Chism, Ph.D., proudly announces that Awaken FlowBoost , its cutting-edge seed lubricity agent, has been awarded The Scoop’s 2024 New Product of the Year. Sakata Seed America, Inc. Loveland Products, Inc.

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NASDA

MAY 21, 2024

food and agriculture sector, the USCO plays an instrumental role in advocating and developing science and risk-based food standards on behalf of farmers, ranchers, and the food industry to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade worldwide. As a representative of the U.S. government agencies.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Register now for the 36th Independent Professional Seed Association (IPSA) Annual Conference January 6-9, at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, CA. Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS) highlights a wide range of pumps ideal for seed treatment applications.

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Food Tank

MARCH 5, 2024

and Canada want to force Mexico to open its market to all genetically modified foods and seeds. argues that Mexico’s actions are not based on scientific principles, but the government has sufficient science to justify its precautionary policies. We published our analysis anyway , to show that Mexico’s ban is supported by the science.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 28, 2023

Degeneration of cleaned-up, virus-tested sweetpotato seed vines in Tanzania. The societal role of meat—what the science says. Predictors of vitamin A rich food consumption among women living in households growing orange-fleshed sweetpotatoes in selected regions in Uganda. The case for meat.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Daniel Walton April 21, 2023 The Utopian Seed Project is growing dozens of types of okra in one North Carolina field, creating genetic collisions that build new, resilient varieties. And when those seeds came up in garden plots across the U.S., Credit: Chris Smith.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The new 22,000 square-foot facility is the home of the schools AGCO Agriculture Service Technician Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.) The data can be visualized and used to create maps for variable rate application of seeding, fertigation, and irrigation, and harvest yield maps can be added for planning future seasons.

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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

The American Seed Trade Association honored industry pioneers during the 2024 ASTA Leadership Summit this week in Nashville, Tennessee. Awardees were recognized in the following categories: Heritage, Distinguished Service, Lifetime Honorary Member, and Excellence in Science. and later sold to AgriGenetics. He then started JGL, Inc.,

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NASDA

MARCH 18, 2024

Since the agencies have been inundated with compliance obligations, we are concerned that in recent years program priorities, especially at EPA, have gravitated towards dispensing with growing workloads via broad, overly conservative actions at the cost of developing careful decisions rooted in the best available science and evidence.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the farm expanded and moved to the current high-desert property, which, in addition to growing crops such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, and herbs, also houses an Indigenous seed bank and a new community kitchen called Niqi Native Kitchen. “I I think some of the blood memory in this ancestral seed is digging the drought.

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