20 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW 

Organic food production cannot feed the world. OPINIONS ABOUT the potential for organic food production vary widely...

Respect the refuge 

By: By Mark Moore

A WASHINGTON-BASED group has alerted the Environmental Protection Agency that Bt refuge compliance problems need to be addressed immediately. What the...

SmartStax on track 

By: By Rhonda Brooks

WHAT'S SO smart about the new SmartStax biotech package? Plenty, if you like the idea of high corn yields, aboveground and belowground insect protection,...

Eight traits 

SMARTSTAX corn contains eight genetically modified traits that are combined or stacked: six for insect resistance and two for herbicide tolerance. There are some stacked GM trait crops on the market now...

Refuge reduced 

By: By Lynn Grooms

THE NUMBER of refuge acres required for crops from multi-stacked seeds is decreasing thanks to new technology from seed companies. The first big drop...

Eight-stack hybrid 

The Eight-Trait SmartStax corn hybrid from Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences will soon hit the U.S. market. The companies expect that up to 4 million acres...

Dow/Syngenta cross-licensing agreement 

Dow AgroSciences and Syngenta now have access to each company's corn traits. Under a recent agreement between the two companies, Syngenta will receive...

Monsanto names seed traits Genuity 

By: By Karen McMahon

Monsanto Specialty crop traits have a new name and look for the 2010 crop season. The new brand name Genuity covers Monsanto's entire family of technology...

What's up with seed? 

By: By Mark Moore

For a few days in December, the American Seed Trade Association brings the who's who of the seed industry together in Chicago for its annual Seed Expo....

Farmindustrynews.com 

ISOBUS for tractors, implements Tractors and implements are moving to a universal language called ISOBUS that lets equipment from different companies...