America’s corn processor Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has sued seed company Syngenta after China refused to import a genetically modified MIR162 corn variety. The lawsuit reportedly argues that Syngenta commercialised this corn ...
Peering through a sunlit barn in rural Kansas, fourth-generation poultry farmer Frank Reese rattles off names of chicken breeds that were once common - Barred Rock, Dark Brahma, Ancona, Rhode Island Red, Dark Cornish. He points to an ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A 20% drop in the price of distiller dried grains, or DDG, after top consumer China turned away two shipments that may contain unapproved genetically modified corn strains are "clearly a negative" for US ethanol producers which rely on the ...
Based on information from China's official news agency, it appears the Chinese continued to reject cargoes of U.S. corn in late December because they contained the unapproved genetically modified MIR 162 corn trait. And Chinese traders ...
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To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
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In order to update agriculture stakeholders regarding future technology, world’s leading seed company Monsanto arranged an official showcase of its new technology at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad’s (UAF) farm land. ...
Tags: Bt cotton, agriculture, cotton business
A study linking a type of genetically modified corn developed by Monsanto to health risks in rats lacked sufficient scientific quality in order to arrive at any conclusions with regard to the safety of such crops, said European Food Safety ...
Tags: genetically modified corn, safety assessments, developing a tumour
Swiss conglomerate Syngenta is planning to set up a corn and sunflower seed processing facility in Cordoba province, Argentina, with an investment of $50m. The facility, located in the central region of Argentina, will supply processed ...
France has said that it will not challenge Monsanto’s license to market genetically modified corn in the European Union (EU) after the country’s food safety agency concluded that a study associating the corn to cancers was ...
Tags: France, Monsanto's Corn, Cancer