There’s no need to start from scratch — the template exists, but stepwise tweaks using breeding techniques like gene editing and biotechnology are needed.
The only path to peaceful coexistence is to de-differentiate and break down artificial distinctions that pit organic farmers against conventional farmers.
The marketing of embargoed science news releases — especially about sticky and controversial topics — too often do a disservice to science community.
Newsflash: Study links common weedkiller to animal convulsions! What to make of this allegation against longtime punching bag Roundup.
Ferrum College crop science students got first-hand experience growing plants in simulated lunar soil with the Plant the Moon Challenge.
Overtime in the agriculture sector is a colossal misfire, and a glaring incompatibility if there ever was one for an industry that is anything by 9-to-5.
Pesticide choice shouldn’t be about allegiance. It’s about what works and what doesn’t. Let’s dispense with the organic/conventional pesticide rivalry.
Behind the domestication of every species, there’s been a crop wild relative in the mix — and one must concede admiration those early varieties.
The major point about chemophobic scares, be they pesticides or potato polyacrylamide: Ignorance is calibrated to hysteria, and it needs facts to fix.
Food sovereignty: the road to self-sufficiency, or stifling self-righteousness? Seems like a dramatic solution in search of a nonexistent problem.