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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Members of the Senate will begin returning to Capitol Hill for hearings this week after the August recess, while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack travels to Cornell University for an agriculture seminar.
The future of farming could include better ways for people to monitor what crop plants need. That's one of the goals of a new $25 million research center dubbed CROPPS (for Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems) focused on the new field of digital biology.
Grape breeders across the country are working to develop varieties that won't fall victim to powdery mildew, a fungus that threatens grapes just about anywhere they are grown, and now artificial intelligence is speeding up the process, a USDA scientist says.
Using a pollen-sized microparticle that contained a certain enzyme, a group of scientists were able to create an “antidote” to organophosphate-based insecticides, according to a Cornell University release.
A Cornell University-sponsored training week in Illinois helps a worldwide gathering of farmers pump up to fight for better science in the lab and the field.
