Instead of seven to 10 long years of waiting for the next ‘big’ jump in yield or agronomic improvement, precision gene editing technology could get it on farms in as few as three years. USDA is watching this technology, too, and has actually made it easier for breeders to bring products to market.
 
USDA recently announced it does not regulate or have plans to regulate any plants that could have been developed through traditional breeding techniques as long as they are not plant pests or developed using plant pests. This includes new techniques such as genome editing because it speeds up traditional plant breeding for results indistinguishable from traditional breeding.
 
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