Keeping Up With Advances

Keeping up with advances

It’s easy to get lost on Internet. Yes, a lot of time can be wasted looking for information that may or may not be valuable, or even true. But it is also mind-boggling to realize all the changes and technological advances that are occurring at any given time.

 For each issue of Ag Innovation News, AURI’s quarterly newspaper, we produce a section called Elsewhere in Ag Innovations. This regular feature highlights brief articles on agricultural innovations that are happening around the world. Doing research to find suitable articles can be time consuming—not because the advances are hard to find, but because there are so many its easy to get lost.

It is truly fascinating to read about care tires being made with agricultural ingredients, biodegradable snack food bags made from corn, adhesives and insulations made from soybeans. There are also medical breakthroughs utilizing agricultural ingredients for treatment of everything from eye conditions to heart disease and diabetes.

It’s truly amazing to see the advancements being made through science and innovation. It’s also very encouraging and exciting to see how much of a role agriculture is playing in those innovations.