Gene editing: bearing fruit in 2024
As crops with novel properties appear in farmers’ fields and the first gene-edited foods appear on supermarket shelves, how much do we know about the technology and where will it take our food?
Diseases without frontiers
Since man began raising crops, pathogens have seized every opportunity to get ahead. Researchers...
Sowing resilience through roots of peace
Roots of Peace revives local farming and promotes sustainable livelihoods in former war-torn lands....
The journey of a seed
Farmers need innovative new varieties to stay ahead of changes in growing environments, and...
New remedies for ancient problems
Fungal infections have dogged agriculture for millennia, but new fungicides – though the process for discovering them is arduous – provide new solutions for farmers...
The trait that could transform wheat farming
The discovery of a grass that makes its own antibiotics may have wide-reaching implications...
Feeding tomorrow requires unity today
As climate changes take place, farmers are on the front line. Climate research scientist...
Managing the growing certainty of uncertainty
From politics and macroeconomics to extreme weather challenges, the mounting uncertainties facing US farmers...
The Soil Rush
Civilizations have farmed the soil since antiquity. Now that soil could help solve one...
Four transformational technologies
Farming is in the midst of a technical revolution, where data intelligence augments conventional wisdom in 2024.
Farming families face up to succession
Will the increasing use of technology in agriculture motivate younger generations of digital natives...
Missing piece of the puzzle
Soil biology is the least understood of the trilogy of properties that influence soil...
Rice breeding takes a giant leap
A breakthrough in rice cloning could revolutionize plant breeding, bringing down hybrid seed production...
New frontiers in sustainability
Enhanced seeds and beans meet specific market – not just farmer – needs, and...
Virtual doppelganger for Iowa
A digital twin of Iowa’s Corn Belt promises to make crop forecasts more accurate...
Microbes: a global perspective
Microbes are an intrinsic part of soil, plant and human health, as well as fundamental to the health of the planet. Professor Tom Crowther explains...
Better Yields, Sustainably
A new generation of naturally derived innovations is protecting crops, controlling pests, and nurturing...
Innovating a sustainable food system
A message from Dr. Sam Eathington, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Digital Officer...
Keeping favorite foods on the menu
Food and farms have adapted since the dawn of time in response to water...
Modernizing crop insurance
Experts believe the US crop insurance system could do with an update to reflect...
Attacking farmers’ problems with new breeding technology
With Corteva Agriscience’s unique gene-editing know-how, researchers fine-tune crops for better performance.
The case for empowering women farmers
Empowering women strengthens food security for all. Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank, explains why.
Three farmers, three continents
Changes in rainfall patterns are anticipated to be the biggest threat to three very different scale farming operations in the United States, India, and Africa.
A living entity to be respected
World Food Prize (2020) laureate, Professor Rattan Lal, shares his thoughts on how soil...
The countdown is on…
Farmers need to get ready to apply new tracking measures in 2026, designed to...
Unsung hero of sustainable agriculture
Sorghum is the fifth most produced cereal crop in the world, is highly nutritious...
The world beneath our feet
The incredible carbon storing capability of the world beneath our feet - and how...
Harnessing Change
A message from Ambassador Terry Branstad, President of the World Food Prize Foundation.
Podcast – coming soon
As the first gene-edited foods appear on supermarket shelves, we go on a quest to find out how this relatively new technology works, why it has garnered interest among scientists, farmers, and food security experts, and why a restaurateur who was previously outspoken about genetic modification is finding comfort in new precision editing technologies.