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This week a presidential executive order declared the herbicide glyphosate “crucial to the national security and defense” because it allows “farmers and ranchers to maintain high yields and low production costs while ensuring that healthy, affordable food…

To hikers in Shenandoah National Park, Corbin Hollow is a procession of forested hillsides, copperheads, and collapsed chimneys.

A Famous Graph of the Triumph of Science Actually Shows Just What is Wrong with Our Agriculture It’s the most reproduced chart in anything ever written on agriculture.

Hard to imagine an odder way to start the day than sympathizing with Robert F.

Interested in how the government spends your taxes?

As stories about GM crops in developing countries unfold, I continue to be struck by how very different each case is.

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a GMO.

May 2016: The article “Disembedding grain: Golden Rice, the Green Revolution, and heirloom seeds in the Philippines,” by Dominic Glover and me, has been published in the journal Agriculture & Human Values and is available here.

What a bloodbath on Wall St — XOM down 5%, UNH down 5%, DIS down 4%.

As the latest controversy over GMO’s unfolds – this time it’s about a House Bill that would ban labeling laws – it’s time for a moment of honesty about science and safety.