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Gloved hands hold a tablet showing a satellite field map above green crop rows
Sep 10, 2026
Help us serve you: UMN field survey
GEMS informatics is in the business of developing data science solutions to make farms more profitable and more economically and en
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Low winter sun casts long tree shadows across a frost-covered golf fairway.
Aug 26, 2026
Predicting Winterkill: going from in-green sensors to the causes of damage
Winter damage is one of the most difficult things to manage on a golf course because, by the time you can see it, much of the evide
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Illustration of two loafs of bread and a magnifying glass to inspect one of the loave
Jul 21, 2026
Summer Science for Youth – Expanding outreach with Bread Science
Who would have ever guessed that 6 years after the pandemic middle-schoolers would still be crazed about sourdough!! Sure enough, on
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Illustration of gears one of which is planet earth
Mar 11, 2026
Pooling Ideas on Public-Private Agri-Food R&D and Innovation Possibilities: A World Food Prize Panel
2025 World Food Prize: Panel Summary
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Women in lab coat tending to plants in a lab setting
Feb 06, 2026
2Blades and GEMS Informatics Partner to Create BladeSeek™ Gene Discovery and Sharing Environment
2Blades and GEMS Informatics announce a new partnership to create an integrated database for BladeSeek™, 2Blades’ gene discovery platform.
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Plant samples in the gene bank, part of CIAT's Genetic Resources program, at the institution's headquarters in Colombia.
Jan 07, 2026
Seismic Shifts in the Global Agri-Food R&D Landscape
Citation: Pardey, P.G., C. Chan-Kang, G-J. Stads, Y. Chai. J.M. Alston, J. Greyling, H. Muñoz.
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vegetables on a table at a farmers market
Sep 16, 2025
Reimagining Partnerships to Transform the Agri-food Innovation Chain
GEMS and 2Blades host a Borlaug Dialogue session exploring how public-private partnerships accelerate innovation across modern agri-food value chains.
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Group photo of participants, grades 6-8 wearing personal protective equipment as part of tour of Food Science lab
Jul 01, 2025
Summer Science Event Generates Enthusiasm For Food Science, Ag, and Computers
Last year a dedicated team of nearly 30 scientists teamed up to create and deliver a fun-filled summer science event for middle school students.
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A map showing part of North America where sensing nodes were deployed to capture WinterTurf data
Jun 17, 2025
WinterTurf hackathon and 2024–2025 sensing update
As the WinterTurf 2024–2025 data collection season comes to a close, the WinterTurf sensing nodes are being removed to make way for spring maintena
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Heirloom varieties of wheat heads
May 29, 2025
Pedigree analysis tools illuminate ancestry of over 8.5M wheat varieties in CIMMYT’s international nursery
The International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is the world’s primary source of breeding material for wheat and corn (maize).