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Carbon Farming Part 2: Cover Crops and Carbon Sequestration

If cover crops sequester vast amounts of CO2, why do they want to ban glyphosate?

The Dreamer’s Disease: How Agroecology will Starve Millions

Always be careful when a political ideology imposes itself on science.

A “UN Agency” Blames Industry for COVID-19 … Hmm!

IPBES has just published an awful anti-science tirade. Grade: F-

The Post-COVID-19 Blueprint (Part 2.2): The Docilian Deathtrap

After 20 year, docilians have woken up to the need for risk management.

Would you buy a black banana?

Food waste is no longer an issue. Now it is part of nature.

Agronomy’s AIDS Moment

Was Monbiot’s Apocalypse Cow the crisis agriculture needed to save humanity?

The Bambi Effect: IARC in the Post-Journalism Age

You can lead journalists to a scandal, but how do you get them to drink?

Crops Matter: Young Citizens take the Initiative

A group of ag-tech students have launched a Citizens’ Initiative to get the EU to responsibly regulate plant breeding techniques.

The Poison of Precaution (IUPAC Keynote)

Precaution is poisoning our ability to solve problems. My IUPAC keynote text.

The Poison of Precaution: The Anti-Science Mindset

20 years of precaution has taught us to abandon science-based solutions.

SlimeGate 3/7: The Tort-Tort Scam 3/4: The True Believers

Tort-tort scientists are using lawsuits rather than evidence to ban products.

The Neonics Precaution Fail: How Farmers are Suffering from EU Regulatory Negligence

The EU precautionary ban on neonics has decimated this year’s crop.

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