Eggplant, notes the Oxford Companion to Food, is not an appropriate name for the varieties sold in western countries.
Everywhere else, it seems, people h...
Will the last person to agree that biotech food is safe to eat please turn out the lights?
That was my first response when I read a summary of the new report...
Money isnt everything, billionaire industrialist J. Paul Getty once quipped. But it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
Im a father and a famil...
As production of biotech crops enters its tenth year and approaches one billion acres planted, the economic and environmental benefits continue to be documented...
Biotech crop acreage in developing countries like China, India and South Africa continued to increase in 2004 according to the ISAAA (International Service for ...
That joke came to mind the other day when I read about a collection of anti-biotech groups suing the Department of Agriculture over important crop research that...
The timing was impeccable - The very week we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, we also learned of a major advance in agricultural b...
My farm is located deep in the heart of Big Ten Country, just a few miles from the University of Illinois campus. So, for me, two important seasons are approach...
When I started farming 30 years ago, I never dreamed of how technological progress would revolutionize agriculture. People have been growing food for millennia,...