LEBANON — About 70 percent of all the corn now being harvested across the Midwest comes from just two seed suppliers: DuPont (and its Pioneer Hi-Bred brand) and Monsanto (with its DeKalb brand). Craig ...

A group of scientists and food activists is launching a campaign Thursday to change the rules that govern seeds. They're releasing 29 new varieties of crops under a new "open source pledge" that's ...

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When his children were small, Irwin Goldman wanted to give them a beet to snack on — a beet so pretty and swirled with colors, so juicy and delicious, that they’d crunch on it raw. So Goldman, a ...

This movement started as many movements do: friends sitting around a table with booze. A few years ago, Lane Selman, an Oregon State University researcher who works with organic farmers, asked 20 of ...

Seven years ago, the chef Dan Barber invited a group of seed breeders to have dinner at Blue Hill, his groundbreaking farm-to-table restaurant in New York City. After dinner, he invited one breeder, ...