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Bt isn’t harmful to humans — Bt proteins can only exert toxicity if they are eaten and subsequently bind to...

Farming to optimize plant-microbe interaction is the best way to ensure the food we eat contains the phytochemicals that will...

Appreciating the Importance of Biology Thank you for the book review of The Devil’s Element by Dan Egan. I was...

Wheat (Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez, Montana State University) — A wheat stem sample from a research plot near Amsterdam, Montana. Scientists there...

Growers can manage plant nutrition to achieve resistance to pests and diseases The presence of pests and diseases is often...

Healthy, mineralized soils and healthy plants are the key to protecting your crop Protecting crops from disease or insects always...

Understanding disturbance and succession helps us as eco-farmers to use our management to “steer” our site toward greater resistance to...

Minerals, clean water and apple cider vinegar offer holistic disease prevention for cattle During a recent Acres U.S.A. podcast, I...

Researcher Joe Lewis and researcher/farmer Alton Walker discuss how to harness nature’s built-in mechanisms to keep pests in check in...

“Modern pesticides rapidly biodegrade” is a myth — an excerpt from The Myths of Safe Pesticides by André Leu One...