Cornucopia’s Take: USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue issued clarification, below, on the USDA’s oversight of plants produced through genome editing, including CRISPR. Perdue has set the ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Dairies across the country, both conventional and organic, are struggling to keep their doors open, thanks to the current milk glut. Industrial-scale “organic” ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Organic producers meet regularly in communities, conferences, and online to share stories and seek solutions to the growing crisis in the organic marketplace. ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia Senior Scientist Linley Dixon, PhD responded to an editorial in The New Food Economy last week, shared below. Reader response: Young farmers ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Truly organic crop farmers recognize the importance of feeding the soil, not the plant. Cover crops provide fertilizer and some amount of weed ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Since 1975, the United States has seen shocking increases in produce imports from other countries, detailed in the article below. In order to ...
Cornucopia’s Take: The corporate takeover of organics began long before President Trump thought about running for office. Hydroponic production was allowed under previous National Organic ...
Cornucopia’s Take: The active ingredients in synthetic pesticides, like glyphosate in Roundup, are often under fire for their toxic effects. This study takes a look ...
Cornucopia’s Take: For more than 30 years, the California Department of Food and Agriculture has sprayed dangerous pesticides without proper analysis of risks to human ...
Cornucopia’s Take: To date, consolidation of seed and pesticide companies has given almost total control over pesticides, seeds, and agricultural traits to five firms. The ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Current conservation regulations conserve habitat for endangered species and provide protection for water and pristine environments near agricultural land. These regulations are worth ...
Cornucopia’s Take: While Cornucopia is as happy as anyone that this large tract of land will be spared the spraying harmful pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, ...
