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A New Route to Hardier Rice: Tweak its Microbiome
Adjusting microbial communities may become an important new tool to produce resilient crops.
Remembering the Food Workers We’ve Lost to COVID-19 Part 3
The third part in a series honoring the food and agriculture workers who lost their lives to the virus.
Is It Time for a Second White House Summit on Food?
The first took place a half-century ago and changed the trajectory of hunger in America.
Survey Finds Pesticides Threaten Important Soil Ecosystems
Soil is a dense ecosystem full of organisms—or, at least, until pesticides hit it.
A Legal Battle Rages Over Smoking Sugar Fields in South Florida
A new bill, signed last week, is the next hurdle for a pending lawsuit against Florida sugar growers and their use of sugarcane burning.
Court of Appeals Gives EPA 60 Days to Fix Chlorpyrifos Regulation
If the agency fails, the pesticide will be banned entirely.
Doctors File Lawsuit Against USDA for Promoting Dairy in Dietary Guidelines
How essential is milk, really?
Remembering the Food Workers We’ve Lost to COVID-19 Part 2
The second part in a series honoring the food and agriculture workers who lost their lives to the virus.
