Food Crises and Technological Phobia

Food Crises and Technological Phobia

Drought across the United States has reduced substantially the expected yield of corn and soybean fields for the fall 2012 U.S. harvests. With reduced yield, prices have risen rapidly for these…
Plant Biotechnology As Time Travel?

Plant Biotechnology As Time Travel?

In the last few months there have been two examples where we have seen brand new biotech crops that are tolerant to relatively old herbicides. It feels a little bit like time travel.  Dow…