SeedWorld wrote a news story about my recent talk I gave at the CrossRoads Crop Conference in Edmonton, Canada. Here’s an excerpt:
In 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU launched its Farm-to-Fork Strategy, aiming to overhaul European agriculture. The plan includes ambitious targets: a 50% reduction in synthetic pesticide use, a 20% cut in fertilizer use, and an increase in organic production from 10% to 25%, all by 2030.
“These numbers weren’t based on any scientific analysis,” Wirtz says. “They just thought, ‘50% looks good on a pamphlet.’”
Read the entire piece here.
Bill Wirtz 