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Our biggest story of 2015
GMOs continue to make headlines as discussion on mandatory labeling of GMO foods stays heated. Monsanto released another video on GMOs last month, giving the company's take on the labeling issue.
Last February, we reported on the impact of Monsanto's latest GMO, what the company itself labeled the "largest biotech trait launch in its history."
With 90 percent of all soybean acres planted with GMO seeds, the issue is sure to remain a relevant one.
Revisit our report and see why it was our most read story of 2015.
And 2015 was big year for ag
Last year was an important year for agricultural stories, from the slump in the U.S. farm economy because of plunging commodity prices to the outbreak of avian influenza and Congress repealing mandatory country-of-origin labeling on meat products.
A number of stories will not be resolved until 2016 and beyond.
Here is Dave Dickey's list of newsworthy agricultural stories from 2015 and what to look for in 2016.
Sign up Now! Free webinar on the U.S. Visa System
Our own Brant Houston will host this free webinar at Poynter on Jan. 13.
From Poynter:
"More than 9 million people a year legally enter the U.S. There are dozens of types of visas in the U.S. system, deeply affecting nearly every community and many U.S. industries.
With the continuing concerns over immigration, journalists need the resources and knowledge to report on the visa programs that allow some to pay their way in and force others to wait years for a change in status.
This Webinar will cover student visas, worker visas and lesser known visas like the investor visa, which gives immigrants residency in exchange for an investment in the U.S. economy."
Sign up now https://www.newsu.org/courses/reporting-visas
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Yes, your cow eats donuts
And, as it turns out, cookies and gummy bears and other byproducts from food that don't make it to the grocery stores, bakeries or restaurants.
As AgriNews reports, one Illinois company is turning this food waste into feed for cows and pigs.
Think not it waste a perfectly good Krispy Kreme.
As AgriNews reported
"The food byproduct they recycle used to go into landfills. Today, Evans and Hildebrand are turning it into a feed supplement that eventually ends up as steaks and chops.
“I think we all look at it as waste, and we don’t consider the nutritional value,” Hildebrand said."
Our friends at Harvest Public Media took an in-depth look at food waste in landfills last year.
Check out their project Tossed Out: Food Waste in America
