Plant 'editors' need to engage with public

Ashley Walmsley
November 22 2017 - 5:00am
BROADER VIEW: DuPont Pioneer director of regulatory product strategy, scientific affairs and industry relations, Kevin Diehl, says traditionally, plant breeders and breeding companies haven't thought much beyond the farmer as the customer but they need to see the greater public as a customer as well.
BROADER VIEW: DuPont Pioneer director of regulatory product strategy, scientific affairs and industry relations, Kevin Diehl, says traditionally, plant breeders and breeding companies haven't thought much beyond the farmer as the customer but they need to see the greater public as a customer as well.

EASING the public into being more comfortable with genome-edited food will take more than simply stating facts according to Kevin Diehl.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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