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Diane Wray-Cahen: "One huge benefit for both the plant and animal agricultural industries is that genome editing can be used to reduce the time it takes to create new varieties of plants and to introduce new traits into livestock, as well as to introduce some traits that may not be available in the breeding pool, such as pest or disease resistance." Photo: USDA

10-04-2020 | Article

Genome editing can reshape agriculture

Photo: Wikimedia

17-09-2018 | News

USDA to help farmers hit by hurricane Florence

Photo: Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory

11-06-2018 | News

USDA to use NASA data for crop predictions

Photo: Henk Riswick

06-04-2018 | News

US: More soybeans, less corn planted

L-glutamine: Possible alternative to antibiotics. Photo: Mark Pasveer

12-03-2018 | News

L-glutamine: Possible alternative to antibiotics

Photo: Michel Zoeter

05-01-2018 | News

Excellent quality for 2017 US corn harvest

Record-high soybean forecast for 2017 in US. Photo: Shutterstock

21-08-2017 | News

Record-high soybean forecast for 2017 in US

USDA releases latest soybean figures. Photo: Roel Dijkstra

17-07-2017 | News

USDA releases latest soybean figures

Nutriad responds to US poultry industry issues. Photo: Dreamstime

20-02-2017 | News

Nutriad responds to US poultry industry issues

US broiler and turkey production recovers in Q1 2017. Photo: Jan Willem Schouten

24-01-2017 | News

US broiler and turkey production recovers in Q1 2017