Reading Time: 3 minutes When it comes to solving the challenges of developing countries, Bill Gates believes agriculture has a vital role to play. In his annual letter for 2012, Gates, the founder of Microsoft and now a leading philanthropist through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, called for an increase in research for seven major crops, all of […] Read more
More money for ag research, Gates urges
Problematic weed moving into Illinois
Reading Time: 2 minutes In 2010, a two-day conference centred in Memphis offered farm dealers from the U.S. and Canada, a glimpse of the effects of glyphosate resistance. The "Respect the Rotation" event, sponsored by Bayer CropScience, provided a first-hand testament to the growing issue of glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth and its impact on soybean fields in the mid-South region […] Read more
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