The Yellow Medicine County Corn and Soybean Growers Board understands the vital role agriculture plays in rural communities and is committed to educating the next generation. That’s why they ...

In this Pods for Profit, we’ll hear from the vice president of the Michigan Soybean Committee, who is working to grow all non-GMO soybeans in his rotation. Hear from Sanilac County farmer Scott Wilson ...

Invasive plants are overrunning the Santa Monica Mountains, making fires more destructive and more frequent. Thus, ...

A team from the University of Illinois has determined that improving a key component of soybean photosynthesis is unlikely to ...

To protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of plants that can survive months ...

Food brands as well are trying to put consumers at ease by turning away from seed oils, though some health professionals call ...

Substituting 10 grams of butter a day with an equal amount of plant-based oil was associated with an estimated 17% reduction ...

1 College of Agriculture, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China 2 Shandong Key Laboratory of Precision Molecular Crop Design and Breeding, Peking University Institute ...

Simply put, they are oils extracted from plant seeds. They include eight commonly targeted by critics: canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, safflower and rice bran. Seed oils ...

Willett and his team’s latest research revealed that higher butter consumption was associated with a 15% higher risk of mortality, whereas higher intake of plant-based oils — including soybean, canola ...

knowledge about the siRNAs processed in the GM plant, such as size and sequence, compared to the wild type is necessary. Since both intended and possible secondary siRNAs (such as tasiRNA) can play a ...