GMO Virus Could Save Florida's Orange Groves
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will reportedly approve a GMO virus to fight citrus greening disease.
Agriculture
Finally Fake Meat that Tastes Deliciously Like the Real Thing
Tasty Impossible Burger uses 95 percent less land, uses 74 percent less water, and emits 87 percent less greenhouse gas.
Florida Appeals Court Upholds City's Veggie-Garden Ban
A court says a city can squash your property rights because it thinks vegetables are ugly.
New Farm Subsidy Programs Were Supposed to Save Money; Instead They've Cost Billions More Than Predicted
Most of the money has gone to a small collection of well-off farms.
Technological Advances Offer Optimism For The Future
Genetically-engineered hens, embryo surgeries, and robot farmers.
Europe's Anti-GMO Stance Is Killing Africans
The cost of Africa's refusal to grow GMO crops are incredible in human health and economic terms.
Unconstitutional State Food, Agriculture Crackdowns Spur Congress to Act
States like Massachusetts attempt to control how farms outside their borders operate.
PRIME Act Would Help Put the 'Local' Back in Local Meat Production
States could set their own rules for meat that's processed and sold within their own borders.
Subsidies Encourage Maine Farmers to Keep Growing Too Many Blueberries
The market can't fix the problem when government insists on intervention.
Plow Field, Pay Government $35 Million?
It's happening in California, where the case goes to penalty trial in August, if the Trump administration doesn't stop it before then.
Earth's Forest Area 9 Percent Greater Than Thought
Satellite survey finds hidden forests all over the world.
Anti-GMO Bills Fail in Oregon
This failure in such a blue state shows the limits of the anti-GMO movement.
Corporate Farming Laws a Bad Deal for Farmers
A farmer in Kansas who wants to sell his property challenges the state's law.
Good News! A Court Has Ruled This Skim Milk Can Be Called Skim Milk!
A decision so plainly obvious must have roots in intrusive government regulations.
New Study Blames Instagram for Food Waste. Seriously.
New studies blame Instagram and gluttony as causes of food waste.
Lawmakers and Regulators Act Like They Hate Farmers Markets
Existential threats from meddlesome rulemakers
Hemp and Pot Restrictions Not Dying Fast Enough
The push for legalization-particularly farming-is being hampered by in a number of ways.
Senator Pushes a Ridiculous "Milk" Law That Treats Consumers Like Idiots
The "Dairy Pride Act" calls for the FDA to crack down on cow-dairy alternatives that use terms like "milk" or "yogurt."
Food Policy Experts Comment on Bests, Worsts, and What's to Come
The year that was and the year that will be.
Tomato Growers Lose Millions Thanks to False FDA Warning, Courts' Failure to Act
What happens when a food's link to salmonella is proven false? Nothing.
Who Should Decide if 'Hydroponic' is 'Organic'?
A controversy highlights the need to get the USDA out of organic food altogether. (Even a major newspaper thinks so!)
What Trump's Win Means for Food and Agricultural Policy
Should we expect a scaling back of regulations or even repeals?
Election Focus on Food Policy Is Lacking
As the presidential race drags into the home stretch, food issues don't even rate as a blip on the polls.
Hooray for Factory Farming!
It's is good for the environment and it feeds people too.
Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
Changing café culture and international do-gooderism collide on a troubled island.
Dairy Lobby Sides with Florida in Orwellian Attempt to Redefine 'Skim Milk'
According to state regulators, skim milk = skim milk + mandated additives.
Predictions of the Death of Wilderness May Be a Bit Premature
Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing
Why the USDA Shouldn't Be Buying Up Surplus Cheese
The feds are bailing out dairy producers. Here's why that's a terrible and wasteful mistake.
Dumped Cherries a Reminder of Awfulness of USDA Marketing Orders
Hurting farmers and consumers. Squeezing out competitors. Forcing production abroad. Causing food waste. What's not to love?
Massachusetts Voters Could Have Egg on Their Faces
Ballot measure will decide in November whether to impose unwise, harmful, costly, and unconstitutional standards for raising a host of livestock animals.
Starved by Socialist Policies, Venezuelans Urged to Take Up Urban Farming
The Ministry of Urban Agriculture promotes home and community gardening in hunger-wrecked Venezuelan cities.
Yes, the World is Getting Better. Here's Why.
Reason TV set out to cheer up Venice Beach doomsayers with evidence of positive global trends.
Biotech Crop Safety Scientific Consensus Confirmed by National Academy of Sciences
"No substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between current commercially available genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops"
Corn Yields Boosted 50 Percent by Biotechnologists
Malthusians are never right and never win.
One-Fifth of Earth's Plants Threatened with Extinction
Recent trends on population, farmland, deforestation, and urbanization are cause for optimism.
Without Herbicides, Food Itself Would Be Impossible*
Or at least about half of corn and soybeans would be impossible
Greener Earth Thanks to Extra Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuels, Says New Study
But benefits won't last forever as climate change gets worse
CRISPR Critters: Regulators and the New Gene Revolution in Agriculture
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
CRISPR Critters and the New Gene Revolution in Agriculture: New at Reason
"We are now at the dawn of the gene-editing age."
Banning GMOs Would Hurt Nature
Farmers would have to plow down an area roughly equal to Connecticut.
