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Samples of seed (clockwise from top left: treated wheat, untreated maize, and treated maize) waiting to be used in germination tests at small seed company Bidasem. These tests are carried out on each batch of seed just after it arrives from the field (before it is stored), directly before processing, and after treatment (just before packaging). The seed is are grown for fixed periods at known temperatures on a damp paper substrate to check its germination rate and vigor.

Bidasem is based in the city of Celaya in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. It produces maize, wheat and oat seed, as well as marketing seed of other crops. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in reaching small farmers with improved seed that offers them better livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío,” says director general María Esther Rivas. “It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need.”

Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.

For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT’s role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT’s 2012 e-news story “The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers,” available online at: http://www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain-producing-better-seed-for-small-farmers.





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April 25, 2019 Sunnyvale / CA / USA – RoundUp weed killer on a store shelf; Bayer purchased Monsanto in 2018 and since then there have been more than 10,000 lawsuits filed against its subsidiary





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Seedling green sprout of cucumber with leaves in a yellow pot on a blu background. New life, birth. Plant growing. Copy space





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El Cuate bringing unloading his harvest at Packing Facility near Los Cabos Airport





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Nursery Team Member – Basil at Nursery Los Cabos Group





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Larry Jacobs and Del Cabo growers





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Multi-Generation Family Sitting Around Table Eating Meal





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** FILE ** A farm tractor scatters dust as it moves across a field on a farm along state road 82 near Tifton, Ga., Thursday, May 31, 2007. May set records for dry conditions in the state. As the South battles yet another scorching drought, an Alabama congressman’s proposal for helping the region’s farmers build their own small reservoirs is catching on in Congress. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe)





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The land and sky somewhere in Nebraska, taken on a trip west in the summer of 2011





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The University of Iowa Campus looking west from Old Capitol and the Pentacrest.





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Tractor spraying pesticides on vegetable field with sprayer at spring





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Steve Smith speaking at tour of a Red Gold tomato field.





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Dwayne Johnson, who goes by Lee, made history when he became the plaintiff in the first glyphosate non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma case to go to trial. He is shown here with his two young sons.





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Leamington, On. Sep. 6, 2007. A harvesting crew works on a crop of tomatoes Thursday near Leamington. The farm is owned by Peter Brunato of Tri-B Farms Ltd and the tomatoes were bound for processing at the nearby Sun-Brite Canning Ltd. (The Windsor Star-Dan Janisse)





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Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.





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Dicamba damage on leaves of oak trees has become common in the Midwest.





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Tractor spraying pesticides on soybean field with sprayer at spring





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Cotton in Lauderdale County, Tennessee





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The prototype of an autonomous weeding machine by Swiss start-up ecoRobotix is pictured during tests on a sugar beet field near Bavois, Switzerland May 18, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse





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27 year old Sandy Bagne weeding his potato field in Malicong.





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Agriculture – Warning sign posted at the edge of a celery field to indicate the field is unsafe to enter shortly after an application of pesticide / Salinas Valley, California, USA.





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LONGMONT, CO -DECEMBER 15: A customer walks into Whole Foods in Longmont, December 15, 2016. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images)





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An organic orchard overlooking Lake Chelan in central Washington State (Photo: WSU Extension)





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Young corn plants grow next to the Guardian Energy ethanol plant in Janesville, Minnesota. (Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)





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Food banks in the U.S. are starting to turn away donations of junk food and soda to combat obesity among the poor.





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Evidence of dicamba drift damage: the field to the right is herbicide-tolerant, the one on the left is not.





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A recent opinion piece questions the scientific relevancy of Non-GMO labeling in the grocery store.





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Agriculture – Warning sign posted at the edge of a celery field to indicate the field is unsafe to enter shortly after an application of pesticide / Salinas Valley, California, USA.





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Gabe Brown pictured in a high-brassica cover crop on his ranch in North Dakota. While these cover crops are purposely grown to improve soil health, Brown notes that an added benefit to diversifying crops is a polycultures landscape with natural predators to ward off most pests. Photo courtesy of Brown’s Ranch





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President Clinton signing the Food Quality Protection Act in 1996. Hygeia Analytics’ own Dr. Benbrook was in the audience for this seminal event.





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Huge ships like this one are used to transport organic grains from around the world, including countries where access can make it difficult to inspect shipping and sorting facilities to ensure the product meets international organic standards.





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2016, Massachusetts Attorney General Press Release on Neonicotinoids, “AG Takes Action Against Bayer Over Deceptive Marketing About Risks of Pesticides”





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Pasture pork work the soil at Carman Ranch in Oregon. Photo: Chuck Benbrook





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Dr. Benbrook is an avid fly-fisherman.





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A young maize tassel is opened up to reveal stem borers hidden inside, and damage caused by their feeding, in a farmer’s field in Embu district, Kenya.

Stem borers are a class of insect pest, made up of a number of moth species distributed around the world, which lay their eggs at night on the underside of emerging leaves of young maize plants. The larvae, or caterpillars, that hatch from the eggs – i.e. the borers – quickly make their way inside the plant, where they feed undisturbed by predators. Young larvae feed on foliar tissue in the whorl, leading to perforations in unfolding leaves, and potential destruction of the growing point, while older larvae burrow into the stem, where they starve the growing plant of nutrients and can cause lodging. They feed extensively on tassels, ears, and stems.

Borers’ stealthy habits make them one of the most damaging pests for maize in Africa, and yet virtually invisible to farmers, who tend to attribute the damage to their crops to more visible pests. “Many farmers in Kenya don’t even know their maize fields have a stem borer problem, yet these insects cost them some 400,000 tons in lost harvest each year,” says CIMMYT maize breeder Stephen Mugo. Chemical pesticides can control borers, but must be applied soon after planting, and are difficult for resource-poor farmers to afford. “Even farmers who know about stem borers only notice the damage after it’s too late for chemical control. A seed-based technology is what we need,” says Mugo.

In ongoing research, CIMMYT is collaborating with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) to develop maize varieties that are resistant to stem borers, and to disseminate these to resource-poor smallholder farmers. “Maize that resists stem borer damage would take the guesswork out of stem borer pesticide usage by eliminating it altogether,” says Mugo. The work is part of the Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) project.

For more information about stem borers in Kenya and CIMMY





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Cattle feedlot feed trough, Moree NSW





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