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Genetically Modified Crops to Get Faster Approval, USDA Says
Bloomberg / Businessweek February 24, 2012 By Jack Kaskey (Updates with comment from analyst in fifth paragraph.) Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Seed companies including Monsanto Co., the world’s largest, will get speedier regulatory reviews of their genetically modified crops under forthcoming rule changes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. The goal is to cut by [...]
Neighbours set for a BT harvest, what about India?
Economic Times (India) February 20, 2012 Nidhi Nath Srinvas In the next 24 months, genetically modified food crops will enter India’s neighbourhood. And that will trigger changes in our own agriculture, like it or not. Between now and 2014, Bangladesh will introduce BT brinjal; Pakistan will introduce biotech corn; Philippines, that already grows biotech corn, [...]
Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers’ Case Against Monsanto
NPR – The Salt blog By Eliza Barclay February 27, 2012 www.npr.org
Hicks: Pioneer takes long view on work in China
Des Moines Register February 18, 2012 By Lynn Hicks If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of 10 years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. — Confucius Bill Niebur tells his Chinese guests: We will create a revolution in your country. But first, [...]
DuPont, an international seed company praises buoyancy in Indian agriculture
The Economic Times (India) February 14, 2012 NEW DELHI: Praising India for making fast strides in agriculture, a leading international developer and supplier of advance plant genetics has said it aims to boost output of six staple crops, including rice, cotton and sunflower, in the country through advance seed varieties. “India is in top 10 tiers for [...]
Gene-Modified Corn Violations Triple Among U.S. Farmers
Bloomberg / Businessweek February 9, 2012 By Jack Kaskey (Updates with entomologist’s comment in 11th paragraph.) Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Monsanto Co. and other seed makers reported a threefold increase last year in U.S. farmers caught violating requirements for planting genetically modified corn. The data relates to farmers planting seeds that are genetically modified to [...]
Modified Crops Tap a Wellspring of Protest
The New York Times February 7, 2012 By Julia Moskin SILENT in flannel shirts and ponytails, farmers from Saskatchewan and South Dakota, Mississippi and Massachusetts lined the walls of a packed federal courtroom in Manhattan last week, as their lawyers told a judge that they were no longer able to keep genetically modified crops from their fields. [...]
Patent endings raise new biotech issues
Iowa Farmer Today January 12, 2012 By Tim Hoskins Industry leaders are working to develop a road map on how to handle the first biotech trait, Monsanto’s Roundup Ready 1 (RR 1) in soybeans, when its U.S. patent expires. The map is being designed to handle other biotech traits as they start to come off [...]
Occupy protests hurt workers
Capital Press (Oregon) December 22, 2011 Editorial Original Source Occupy movement protesters believe large banks, corporations and the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans are working in concert against the economic interests of the remaining 99 percent. In their view, CEOs and Wall Street fund managers are paid too much, while they and their companies pay [...]
Port shutdown costs ag time, money
Capital Press (Oregon) December 15, 2011 By STEVE BROWN Original Source PORTLAND — Protesters that occupied West Coast ports on Monday didn’t help their cause with Alvie Shrock or Galen Troyer. They are two of thousands of people who lost time and money because of the massive port shutdown aimed at Wall Street businesses. Shrock [...]
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