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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Agricultural producer sentiment rose slightly last month after a big dip in July, according to the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer reading.
A Purdue University food safety scientist, Charles R. Santerre, has been named a senior policy adviser in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, where his assignments are expected to include helping coordinate the administration’s work on agricultural biotechnology.
A new study on biodiesel’s lifecycle energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission effects updates and reaffirms the long-understood benefits of using the renewable fuel.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - Vertical farming holds great promise, but it must overcome challenges – most notably the cost of energy – in order to feed the world’s growing population, attendees were told at a recent Association for Vertical Farming summit.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - Producers’ optimism about the future of the agricultural economy fell in September, according to a sub-index of the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.
WASHINGTON, September 6, 2017 - An academic paper published in Biotechnology for Biofuels argues that biodiesel’s benefits are even better than previous models suggest.
