During your stay in San Diego tune to the following channel to view show highlights and featured sponsors on the BIO hotel broadcast that will be aired June 15th through the 20th. Embassy Suites San Diego Bay: Channel #34 Hotel Del Coronado: Channel #41 Hyatt Regency Islandia Hotel &…

Could it be, that weather, not biofuels, are responsible for the increase in corn prices?  That is what Tim of Environmental Economics suggests.   Citing rains and floods, as being responsible for leaving 4 million acres unplanted (according to the AP),  Tim quotes the AP, "That would likely lift…

The Washington Post last week called for “a greener revolution” that would restore the world’s ability to feed itself at widely affordable prices. “The next green revolution must be ‘greener’ than the first; it must achieve higher production through the wisest possible application of scarce…

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and OECD released their annual Agricultural Outlook yesterday. It makes a strong case for increasing global agricultural production by increasing yield on existing acres – one of many solutions biotech can help provide. Adverse weather conditions in…

Last week, Roll Call revealed that the Grocery Manufacturers Association paid for a PR campaign aimed at blaming high food prices on biofuels (call it the ‘vast chicken wing conspiracy’). But since the revelation, there’s been very little effort in the press to set the record straight. The USDA…

On Monday the USDA held a press briefing. The subject? Food and fuel. One theory that has been widely discussed in recent weeks is that the nation's growing demand for biofuels and the crops needed to produce them is the real culprit behind higher food prices, both at home and abroad. Yet the…

There's been a lot of hype lately over biofuels starving the world, and unfortunately there's not better way to say it than that -- hype. Instead of having the knee-jerk reaction, of panic, we need to think carefully about the problem, for starters, we need to actually identify the problem. In a…

Five weeks before the biggest event in biotech - how are you getting ready? Why not check out some podcasts on the multitude of topics and issues that will be all the buzz at this year's big show. Start with BIO's very own and brand new BIOtech-Now series, which will highlight a different topic…

Anna Smith of Roll Call today filed a story on how the Grocery Manufacturers Association is "leading an 'aggressive' public relations campaign for the past two months in an effort to roll back ethanol mandates that passed in last year’s energy bill." GMA hired Glover Park Group to run the campaign,…

There has been much in the media lately on biofuels, climate change and the food crisis. The International Energy Agency, energy policy advisor to 27 member countries (one of which is the United States) formed during the oil crisis of 1973-74 recently released a statement on biofuels, "The…