The long-simmering lawsuit between Monsanto and DuPont over rights to technology for genetically modified seeds ended in a deal that tosses out the $1 billion jury verdict DuPont was ordered to pay Monsanto last year. Instead, both companies agreed DuPont … Continued
Prices for crop land have zoomed up in the past few years as commodity and food prices have risen. A similar pattern occurred in the 1980s and then farm prices crashed, forcing many producers into bankruptcy. Marcia Zarley Taylor, a … Continued
Recent years have seen robust growth in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), the farming model in which local residents provide funding to farmers in advance of the growing season in exchange for a share of the produce when it’s ready. Joan … Continued
Modern Farmer, a slick new magazine for new-generation farmers and members of the food community made its debut in the United States in April. Based in Hudson, N.Y., it is the brainchild of Anne Marie Gardner, former editor of New … Continued
Society members and guests will tour the Agricultural Research Service’s Eastern Research Center, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. This pioneering research lab was built in 1940, partly in response to an initiative from our former PSPA officers, including former Farm Journal Editor Wheeler … Continued
The next meeting of the Society will take place on May 2, 2013 in the Lincoln Memorial Room of the Union League at 12:00 Noon. Our Guest speaker will be Karyn Malinowski, a Society member and director of the Rutgers … Continued
The United Nations says the decline in honey bee populations, first seen in the U.S. and Europe is now being seen in China, Japan and Africa. Leading bee experts working on behalf of the U.N. warn that numerous factors may … Continued
Promoting Agriculture in a Changing World: 225 Years of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1785 to 2010, is a superbly researched and written new volume that documents the role the Society has played in American agriculture. Author Elizabeth A. … Continued
The University of Pennsylvania is hosting one of the most important conferences of the coming year on one of the most important subjects facing mankind — how to feed the cities as they grow beyond the wildest dreams of many … Continued
In April, L. Stockton Illoway was elected president of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. Stock is a lifelong resident of Chester County and is married to Eleanor Morris Illoway, also a lifelong resident of Chester County. Stock graduated from … Continued
