Business of buying department 

By: FIN Staff

Europe needs more science A coherent scientific approach to food safety to prevent trade disputes and allay consumer fears over genetically modified (GM)...

Crops department 

By: FIN Staff

Demand for GM grains "[Demand for non-genetically modified grains] is by far the minority. We currently estimate it at around 2 to 2_1/2% of total export...

Crops department 

By: FIN Staff

Product packaging Novartis's new purchase program, called AgriFit, guarantees that all prices for NK-brand seed will remain the same for 2000. Also, options...

Business of buying department 

By: FIN Staff

Save on seed, chemicalsTechnology-enhanced seed with the Asgrow brand will be lower in price next year. Low commodity prices have prompted Monsanto to...

Butterflies are free 

By: Business of buying

The highly publicized Cornell University study that reported that monarch butterflies died after ingesting pollen from Bt corn is being contradicted by...

Don't call it a GMO 

By: Business of buying

Could consumer acceptance of genetic engineering be as simple as changing the terms used to describe it? Maybe. Research conducted by the International...

Terminator terminated 

By: Business of buying

Monsanto recently announced it will not sell seeds with the "terminator" gene. Monsanto, through the pending purchase of Delta & Pine Land, should acquire...

Selling unapproved biotech corn 

By: Business of Buying

Check out www.amseed.org to enter a newly created database that lists grain purchasers (by zip code) that will buy biotech corn that doesn't have the...

Beat Pests to the punch 

By: Crops

Scientists at North Carolina State University have developed a simple test kit that will give you early warning if pests are building up resistance to...

Transgenics prevail 

By: Business of Buying

About 71percent of the world's crops are planted with herbicide-resistant varieties, according to Steve Pueppke, University of Illinois associate dean...

Odds of transgenetic weeds 

By: Lynn Grooms

Now that genetically modified crops cover tens of millions of acres, are super weeds next?What are the odds that those herbicide-resistant seeds you bought...

Wheat's up 

By: Karen McMahon

Companies focus research efforts on developing new varieties, hybrids.The introduction of new wheat products signals a regrowth in research and development...

Business of buying 

Leaving CanadaCase Corporation is closing a Canadian manufacturing plant and moving the product lines across the border to plants in Illinois and North...

Risky research 

By: Dale B. McDonald

Is corporate money compromising public research? From their inception, America's publicly funded universities have conducted research with a simple mission:...

Complete feed from the field 

By: Joan Olson

Seed companies improve the nutritioual value of feed cornAbout 80% of the corn produced in the United States is fed to animals. In recent years, seed...

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