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SCIENCE

President-elect Joe Biden seems unlikely to repeat the anti-science tone many policies at the federal level have taken.
CRISPR, an important and evolving technology, holds great promise for agricultural research. Its developers recently received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
I made the incorrect assumption that most of my middle of America, rural and ag friends would be all-in when it comes to trusting science during a global health pandemic.
Has agriculture grown with science? Or did science come about because of agriculture?

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Pesticide use in Brazil sparks concern among environmentalists.
Everyone was worried about wind. Then softball-size chunks of ice started falling from the sky.
The decision, which represented a win for industry, drew swift condemnation from groups that have pushed for years to remove the pesticide from the market.
Matthias Leu, a tick researcher, says warmer temperatures may increase some tick-borne diseases.
FARGO, N.D.--A third year of major label changes for dicamba herbicide is unprecedented and there may still be more changes in 2020, university specialists say.

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In early 2017, I set up a telephone interview with a busy U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist. The information I intended to get was for a news article that would have been useful to many Agweek readers.
A U.S. District Court judge restored federal protections on Monday to about 700 grizzly bears living in and around Yellowstone National Park, canceling planned hunts in Wyoming and Idaho and overturning a Trump administration finding that the ico...
The mass quantities of food Americans waste every year has staggering environmental consequences, according to a study published Wednesday, April 18."Our data suggest that the average person in the United States wastes about a pound of food per d...

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