The high cost of consolidationBy: Dale McDonald Third in a series Who owns nature?What all of us are witnessing during the infancy of the biotechnology industry is not unlike what happened with the... Complete feed from the fieldBy: 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... Business of buyingNarrow-row corn head design droppedNarrow-row corn disciple/inventor Marion Calmer made news almost two years ago when Case Corporation bought the manufacturing... Patent ParalysisBy: Dale B. McDonald Second in a series Who owns nature?With hundreds of patent applications from every biotechnology seed/chemical company jamming the patent office, duplicate... CropsStore water in the seedbedA superabsorbent polymer, called Terawet, can absorb 400 times its weight in water. When the nontoxic crystals are incorporated... When crops save livesBy: Joan Olson Rural Pharmaceutical Grower, Inc. A prescription for better farm profitability?A 40-year-old mother of two is on a waiting list for a kidney transplant.... Who owns nature?By: Dale B. McDonald Thirteen years ago, Farm Industry News compiled an editorial series, hailed as a landmark, on the coming products of biotechnology. Today, many of those... Business of buyingCat enters Big Red countryCaterpillar's high-tech acre eater, the Lexion series of combines, will now carry the label "assembled in Nebraska." Although... Cloning plantsEventually corn may reproduce itself without loss in hybrid vigor.Diligent research and biotechnology have again scored another amazing feat. Researchers... Switch on crop protectionBy: Lynn Grooms New seed research aims to turn traits - such as cold tolerance or pollination timing - on and off when needed.We are all accustomed to flipping a switch... Cloning plantsEventually corn may reproduce itself without loss in hybrid vigor.Diligent research and biotechnology have again scored another amazing feat. Researchers... Business of buyingBy: Karen McMahon Seed piracy to fund scholarshipsRoyalty payments received from farmers who unlawfully saved and replanted or sold Roundup Ready soybeans will be used... This is a pesticide?By: Karen McMahon A debate is raging over whether biotechnology crops such as Bt corn should be labeled as plant pesticides, as directed by the EPA. What will consumers... Farmers' "take" on trait seedBy: Jodie Wehrspann Heralded as the path to profit and cleaner fields, genetically enhanced seed has swept the market in only three years. But what do farmers really think... Triple-, quad-stack hybridsNew hybrids can prevent damage from bugs, disease and herbicides.Garst Seed Company has upped the ante in the seed trait game by being the first seed... |
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