Based on a new review in the EU, there may be a possible loosening of restrictions for gene-edited plants.
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Based on a new review in the EU, there may be a possible loosening of restrictions for gene-edited plants.
Read Article While the U.S. languishes at less than 1% of organic farmland, the European Commission has committed additional resources to reach its 25% organic goal by 2030.
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The USDA said it will dedicate at least $6 billion to help smaller-scale and socially disadvantaged farmers who were hurt by the pandemic, along with producers of organic food and other specialty crops.
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After efforts to ban the weedkiller failed, the country will now give financial aid to farmers who agree to stop using the super-toxic herbicide.
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The country will also be phasing out the super-toxic glyphosate herbicide by 2024.
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New restrictions are part of a push by the French government to phase out the cancer-causing weedkiller by 2021.
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Is it only a matter of time before the U.S. follows suit?
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A very unsettling development involving conventional raspberries repackaged as organic, having originated from China.
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The German drugs and pesticides maker has come to terms with about 75% of the 125,000 filed and unfiled claims overall.
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A big setback for consumer transparency.
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From apple packing houses in Washington state to farmworkers in Florida and a California county known as “the world’s salad bowl,” outbreaks of the novel coronavirus are emerging at U.S. fruit and vegetable farms and packing plants.
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Although the targets are not yet legally binding and will be subject to an impact assessment, the European Commission wants organic farmland to reach 25% by 2030 and the use of chemical pesticides to be reduced by 50%.
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The EU has decided to ban thiacloprid, but this chemical remains fully legal in the U.S.
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France’s health and environment agency said it was banning 36 glyphosate-based weedkillers at the end of 2020 because of health risks.
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Founded in 2015, Tridge has built a global network of sustainable producers and links them to buyers at home and abroad.
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The GMO cotton plant developed by Texas A&M University scientists uses the very, very worrisome RNAi silencing technology.
Read Article Germany will ban the use of the cancer-causing weedkiller glyphosate by the end of 2023 and will limit its use before then.
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20 French mayors have banned glyphosate from their municipalities and are now facing legal action from the federal government.
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To help farmers, Santa Clara County — home of tech haven Silicon Valley — is purchasing local farmland at market rates to ensure its future in agriculture.
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Women and non-binary people are running some of the best-known organic farms in Long Island, highlighting the central role that these groups are playing in the organic farming movement.
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In his inaugural speech, Boris Johnson said that he wants to “liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.”
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After years of falling farm income and an intensifying U.S.-China trade war – JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks are massively decreasing their agricultural loan portfolio.
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Austria’s lower house of parliament passed a bill banning all uses of the super-toxic weedkiller glyphosate.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her country’s lower house on Wednesday that glyphosate use will eventually die out – a stunning proclamation given that Bayer just purchased this product in its acquisition of Monsanto.
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