Explore the full body of work produced through CAST’s Inform, Convene, and Guide programs — peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs, lab reports, multimedia content, and more.
For decades, eggs were cast as a threat to heart health. Elycia VanVacter traces how research, health professionals, and industry outreach rebuilt the egg’s reputation, and how per capita consumption recovered from a 1991 low of 229 eggs....
Dr. Jo Handelsman will deliver the 17th AAAS Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture on Nov. 19 in Washington, DC, and online. CAST CEO Chris Boomsma joins the Policy Roundtable earlier that day. Attendance is free....
On episode 459 of the AgriNovus Indiana Agbioscience Podcast, CAST CEO Chris Boomsma talks about peer review, public trust and what it takes to produce agricultural science that farmers, researchers, companies and policymakers can rely on....
AI is already embedded in American agriculture. Whether it pays off will depend on something no algorithm can supply on its own: the trust of the farmers who use it....
The Board of Directors and Strategic Advisory Council closed three days in St. Louis with a planning session for 2027, and Melissa Merlau Johnson became CAST’s new president....
CAST releases a new paper, Understanding Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms: From Ecological Drivers and Impacts to Management, with a free live webinar Thursday, Nov. 12, noon–1 p.m. CT....
CAST names Jessica Atkin, a NASA FINESST Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University, as the recipient of the 2026 CAST Science Communication Scholarship. Atkin's research explores how plants can grow on the Moon....
The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) will host American Agriculture 2040: From Vision to Action, the concluding session of The Future of American Agriculture, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. CT....
Five-year memorandum of understanding, signed at the 2026 World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue, creates a framework for joint programs, publications and scientific exchange...
