Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)

The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) is a nonprofit organization composed of many individual, student, company, nonprofit, and associate society members. Their primary work includes the publication of task force reports, commentary papers, special publications, and issue papers with input from, and written by, scientists from many disciplines. CAST's mission is to assemble, interpret, and communicate credible science-based information regionally, nationally, and internationally to legislators, regulators, policymakers, the media, the private sector, and the public. 
CAST is your science source for food, agricultural, and environmental issues. They address issues of animal sciences, food sciences and agricultural technology, plant and soil sciences, and plant protection sciences with input from economists, social scientists, toxicologists or plant pathologists, entomologists, weed scientists, nematologists, and legal experts.