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4 essentials for sustaining agriculture

by Andrew McGuire17 August 2015

As an irrigated cropping systems agronomist I work on ways to sustain agriculture. In doing this, I have come to realize that there are certain requirements that agriculture must meet to produce food and to keep producing food (yes, fiber…

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Commentary fertilizer, pest control, soil, sustainable agriculture, Water use
Biological pest control

Biological Pest Control Basics

by Guest Expert8 July 20145 Comments

Written by Mike Bonds Managing pests is an important part of cultivating plants whether you are tending a small garden in your yard or several fields of crops. Insect predators can make short work of healthy plants, particularly if insect…

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Science Crop pests and disease, Environment, integrated farming, Organic, Organic farming, pest control, Risk management

Pest resistance to Bt crops

by Guest Expert4 April 201313 Comments

Written by Jonas Kathage The issue of pest resistance to insect resistant Bt crops receives regular media attention, partly because anti-biotechnology lobbies use it as an argument to vilify GM crops. The German NGO testbiotech, in a recently published report…

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Science anti-GMO, Bt, Genetic Engineering, pest control, Pest resistance, pesticides

Interview with Dr. Gia Aradottir

by Karl Haro von Mogel11 May 201221 February 201926 Comments

A protest group is threatening to destroy research. We interviewed Dr. Gia Aradottir to help shed some light on this experiment.

Talks & Interviews aphids, bioethics, biotechnology, Crop pests and disease, Entomology, Genetic Engineering, GMO, insects, pest control, UK, Vandalism, Wheat

Genetic modification of insects as pest control part 3

by Joe Ballenger7 December 20109 Comments

In part 1 of this series, I explained how we've been using genetic engineering of sorts for nearly half a century to control insects by using radiation to induce sterility or other dominant lethal mutations in insects. In part 2,…

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Science pest control, vector borne disease

Genetic modification of insects as pest control part 2

by Joe Ballenger29 November 20102 Comments

In part 1 of this series, I discussed the history of genetic modification in insects as pest control. We've been creating insect GMOs for the purposes of controlling pests for awhile. If you bombard insects with radiation, it can kill…

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Science pest control, video

Genetic modification of insects as pest control – Part 1

by Joe Ballenger21 November 201010 Comments

Vector borne diseases (VBDs) are generally pretty bad. Yellow fever, the disease which stopped the Panama canal dead in it's tracks, makes your liver fail and turns you yellow... hence the name. Malaria is caused by a parasite which ruptures…

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Science malaria, pest control, vector borne disease, video

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