For Biotech Varieties the Sky is the Limit
Good seeds make a good crop. Biotechnology improves the crop of seeds available, providing farmers with new ways to combat weeds and insects, overcome agronomic challenges and produce more nutritious food to better meet customer demands.
Richard Fordyce, checkoff farmer-leader and Missouri soybean farmer, recently talked with Beyond the Bean about the endless opportunities offered by biotechnology.
Q: Richard, you’ve served as team lead for the United Soybean Board’s Biotech Initiative. Could you tell us about this initiative and its purpose?
A: It ...
Fencepost: How Do You Respond to Tough Questions About Biotech?
Jim Zimmerman – Rosendale, Wisconsin “I explain that biotech helps us grow a safer product for consumers and animals. It is much easier to reduce our weed competition using glyphosate-resistant varieties. Some farmers are able to fight eastern black nightshade, a ...
Read MoreWhat the Future Holds
Glenn Cox admits he was concerned. As he watched the mercury climb up the thermometer, he thought about the crops burning up in his fields. He thought about the growing number of mouths to feed – not just in his own ...
Read MoreEven with Biotech Opposition in EU, Animal Farmers Represent Strong Market for U.S. Soy
Public acceptance of biotechnology has slowly improved among Europeans since the 1990s. Although several countries still oppose biotech crops, the European Union (EU) is a major livestock producer and faces a shortage of homegrown feed protein. Because of this, European ...
Read MoreUnited States and South America Come Together to Promote Biotechnology in the EU
When the first biotech crop genetic events hit the U.S. market in 1996, some European countries were in the midst of food scares, including outbreaks of e.coli, listeria and salmonella, Ukraine-sourced sunflower oil contamination, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow ...
Read MoreThe Birth of a Biotech Trait: How Biotech Seeds are Created and Approved
Biotechnology improves seeds available to farmers, providing them with new ways to combat weeds, insects and other agronomic challenges, and produce more food, feed and fuel to better meet customer needs. Biotechnology helps make agriculture more sustainable – both economically and ...
Read MoreFive Biotech Soybean Varieties Farmers Could See Soon
Developing biotech soybean varieties with agronomic traits that could help farmers in the field remains a high priority of soy checkoff research. And now with the help of the soybean genome, researchers and breeders can get new varieties into the ...
Read MoreTips for Talking Effectively with Consumers about Biotech
Biotechnology is a hot topic among consumers, many of whom still have questions about its safety. U.S. soybean farmers have an important and unique insight into the topic, but the biotech benefits that farmers care about might not be the ...
Read MoreTalk vs. Truth on Biotech
Every day, there seems to be more information from all kinds of sources – some good and not-so-good – bombarding people about biotechnology, commonly referred to as GMOs. Here are some helpful facts that separate the truth from the misinformed ...
Read MoreGMOs: Truth vs. Fiction
It will come as no surprise to U.S. soybean farmers to learn that the majority of the beans they raise have been improved through the use of biotechnology. It will also come as no surprise to learn that there is ...
Read MoreUSB Mission/Biotech
To explore new ways to address global biotechnology as a key part of U.S. soybean farmers' ability to continue to produce a sustainable supply of food, feed and fuel.
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