by Braeden Coon | Aug 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Biden administration is making it rain with $2B in direct payments for Black and other minority farmers who have faced discrimination by the USDA in farm loan programs or didn’t receive equitable access to federal resources prior to the Biden administration. The...
by Braeden Coon | Aug 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Researchers in Texas A&M University’s AgriLife Research program are finding more ways to make plants more resilient to drought, disease, and salinity. And they’re going microscopic—through microRNAs—to identify gene expressions in plants. Tiny...
by Braeden Coon | Aug 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
CRISPR technology is here to stay—and it’s making a splash in produce. Pairwise is a food and ag company specializing in gene editing and CRISPR technology to “transform plants and the production system.” It recently teamed up with Bayer to license a...
by Nicole Erceg | Aug 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
USDA’s Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) is trying to gobble up salmonella. Hatching a new plan: A proposed rule released by FSIS is from a three-year effort to prevent salmonella contamination at poultry slaughter and processing locations, by requiring them...
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