Growing Produce
Potato farming experts push back on restrictive EPA pesticide regulations
Interacting with EPA staff and sharing the complexities of producing a high-quality, high-cost potato crop for U.S. consumers and customers ...
CRISPR is revolutionizing agriculture but modifying fruit remains challenging. Here’s how scientists are working to overcome that barrier
One of the major advantages of CRISPR-CAS-edited crops over the classic genetically modified (GM) crops is that the former does ...
CRISPR gala apples among numerous gene-edited crops that could be greenlighted without regulatory approval in new USDA proposal
On July 19, 2021, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced an important proposal through the Federal Register ...
Seedless blackberries with a year-round growing season? Gene editing opens up new doors for radical improvements in the long-stagnant berry market
Genetic variation plus environmental effects are what make us, and the berries we grow, what we are. The interaction of ...
US grew 13 million pounds of genetically modified apples in 2020, but most fruit growers still resist growing biotech crops
[G]rape and nut growers appear to have sustained a particularly rough 2020. But that was probably due at least as ...
Viewpoint: When politics and emotion dictate pesticide safety rules, farmers lose
What happens when science is overwhelmed by politics, rhetoric, emotions, and the vessels now used to perpetuate it — social ...
CRISPR 2.0: New gene-editing tools offer plant breeders greater precision
There is no best, only better. This seems truly the case in the history of genome editing technology. When the ...
Nearly half of US fruit growers want biotech crops, survey shows, but fear consumers won’t buy GMO products
And you thought growers could go on and on about problems with the weather, or their employees, or any of ...
Environmental groups ‘hijack’ bee death narrative to push political agenda, citrus farmer says
As we enter the fall months, it is safe to say the 2017-18 California citrus crop year was a success ...
CRISPR is poised to revolutionize biotech crops if politics doesn’t block it
Back in 2016, I wrote a feature story for Florida Grower magazine on the potential of CRISPR/Cas9 to improve agricultural productivity and maybe even ...
Genetic engineering may provide only long-term solution to citrus greening disease, National Academies of Sciences report says
A single breakthrough discovery for managing citrus greening (also known as Huanglongbing or HLB) in Florida in the future is ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO opposition to CRISPR gene editing driven by skepticism of corporations, capitalism
The Des Moines Register recently reported on research ... which unveiled Russian funding for and promotion of articles that question the ...
GMO citrus, tomatoes and grasses––resistant to disease––next frontier in hopes for consumer embrace of agricultural biotechnology
While the majority of traditional row crop acres are genetically engineered (GE), there are not many specialty crops that incorporate ...
Popular TED Talks explore future of agricultural innovation, biotechnology
The well-known TED Talks is a clearinghouse of big thinkers and big ideas, and quite a few of them have ...
Understanding transgenics: How genetic modification in conventional crop breeding and GMOs differ
“GMOs are a hot topic and very misunderstood by many,” [Bejo Seeds Senior Tomato Breeder Doug Heath] says. “It is ...
Cornell scientist says GMO label would encourage consumers to eat less processed foods
In the short term, the produce industry would probably benefit from legislation requiring foods containing GMOs be labeled as such, ...