Protecting the Common Mans Food
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...
Crop Protection: Disease, Pests
Biotech for the Common Good
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...
Data Tells the Truth
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...
Benefits of Biotech Crops
As production of biotech crops enters its tenth year and approaches one billion acres planted, the economic and environmental benefits continue to be documented...
Productivity of Biotech Crops in Developing Countries
Biotech crop acreage in developing countries like China, India and South Africa continued to increase in 2004 according to the ISAAA (International Service for ...
Tapping the Potential of Biotech
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...
Biting the "Billion-Dollar Bug" Back
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...
Biotech Crops: Working to Fuel Our Cars and Our Economy
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...
Using New Technology to Fight Old Pests
When I started farming 30 years ago, I never dreamed of how technological progress would revolutionize agriculture. People have been growing food for millennia,...