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Wheat Reaches its Limit | Economy | English Wheat Reaches its Limit Voice of America August 24, 2010 The world’s population keeps growing, but the amount of wheat farmers worldwide are able to grow per hectare has leveled off. According to a new study, that’s because breeders and researchers have reached the limit of how…
Finally, I Have Worked Out What The Story of Cosmetics is Really About | Personal Care Finally, I Have Worked Out What The Story of Cosmetics is Really About August 24th, 2010 . 1 Comment » Since I was a teenager in the Seventies, I’ve always regarded myself as a pretty green. Green in the…
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Earth needs more from less | News | Feedstuffs FoodLink The world’s growing population will need increasingly more food, including meat, but it must be produced from fewer resources using intensification and technology. (8/13/2010) Rod Smith MULTIPLYING the world’s population by its consumption of food does not equal a healthy planet — the multiplication result…
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Bill Gates had a lot of thoughtful things to say about technology and social innovation at the recent Techonomy conference, including a nice plug for Tomorrow’s Table! “There’s a lot of great thinking [from both the GMO and organic communities], which lead to things you should care about-preserving the environments and feeding people with a…
French protesters destroy biotech grapevines – Taiwan News Online Item via Associated Press 2010-08-15 11:48 PM Associated Press are reporting that Protesters have destroyed vines of genetically modified grapes at a government research site in eastern France. The item says that the security chief for the Haut-Rhin region, Jean-Christophe Bertrand said that 50 people were…
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Korea has a 5000 year history of food and farming. How much can a nine-year old and her mother learn on a two week visit to this land of miracles? For the first few nights we stayed in a tiny room in a traditional Korean house called a “Hanok” house. There is a courtyard that…
Dangerous Bacterium Hosts Genetic Remnant Of Life’s Distant Past 14 Aug 2010 Within a dangerous stomach bacterium, Yale University researchers have discovered an ancient but functioning genetic remnant from a time before DNA existed, they report in the August 13 issue of the journal Science. To the surprise of researchers, this RNA complex seems to…
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2nd UPDATE: Wheat Prices Hit 2-Year Highs Following Russian Ban – WSJ.com THE WSJ is reporting that wheat futures prices soared Thursday to their highest levels in two years after Russia said it would ban grain exports due to a severe drought, a move that heightens concerns about global supplies of the grain and the…
Monsanto ~ News & Events ~ Feature Stories ~ Wheat added as a fifth crop to BASF Plant Science and Monsanto joint plant biotechnology pipeline Monsanto joint plant biotechnology pipeline On 7th July Monsanto and BASF announced an expansion of their collaboration to develop higher‐yielding and stress‐tolerant crops to include wheat. The agreement extends the…
RISK MANAGEMENT RESEARCH Sustainability of Glyphosate-based Weed Management: The Benchmark StudyMicheal Owen, Philip Dixon, David Shaw, Stephen Weller, Bryan Young, Robert Wilson, and David Jordan The benefits and risks of the widespread adoption of genetically engineered glyphosate resistant (GE GR) crops on agroecosystems and for society has been a contentious topic of debate in scientific…