Question: As a Master Gardener, I'm disheartened your article on pest control is promoting GMO plants as a means of pest control for home gardens. Answer: As a former instructor of Master Gardeners, I ...

(CN) – Researchers at Cornell University hope to tackle a small pest and a big problem that has plagued agriculture since the 1800s: controlling the destructive diamondback moth through genetic ...

Alfalfa genetically modified to withstand Monsanto Co.’s Roundup weed killer was correctly deemed by agriculture officials not to be a plant pest that needs to be regulated, a federal appeals court ...

LONDON - Scientists in Britain say they have developed a way of genetically modifying and controlling an invasive species of moth that causes serious pest damage to cabbages, kale, canola and other ...

The use of genetically modified organisms that produce Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt as a biological insecticide can significantly reduce the use of far more damaging chemical pesticides, which can ...

Neil Young has a long history of activism. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, which works to support small and family farmers in North America, while his song Ohio is often considered to be one of the ...

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is ...