(Published on Kansas Farmer)
By P.J. Griekspoor, March 10, 2017
Picture a wheat disease so virulent that it can wipe out 100% of yield on infected plants. Now, imagine that no known chemistry controls it when weather favors disease…Read more.
Zippy Duvall, a third-generation farmer from Georgia who leads the American Farm Bureau Federation, is joining the board of directors of the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation. The move comes as the urgency of agricultural research is increasingly debated in Washington DC and around the country.
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SoAR has released a new report entitled “Developing Global Priorities for Plant Research”. The report presents a concise set of plant-focused research recommendations to inform the decision-making of agricultural research funders. It is the result of a series of interviews and an in-person meeting with twelve leading plant scientists from Europe, China, and the United States.
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In California, five years of record-breaking drought have given way to a record-breaking winter of rain and snow that has provided farmers more water than they know what to do with. Southern Africa has had a similar experience, with record drought followed by torrential rains and floods. This change has also been accompanied by the rapid expansion of a new invasive pest—the fall armyworm.
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