Biotech's 6 myths

By: Karen McMahon

Expert reveals misconceptions about genetically modified plants propagated by opponents to biotech.

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EPA initiates new Bt corn review

By: FARM INDUSTRY NEWS STAFF

The Environmental Protection Agency is undertaking a comprehensive scientific and public review of its current approval for Bt corn and cotton. According...

Financing biotech

By: FARM INDUSTRY NEWS

I am writing you in response to your column "Who's selling biotech?" in the Mid-March issue, page 10.I am 73 plus years old, farmed all my life and have...

Biotech education

By: Kurt Lawton

Biotech companies unite to promote the safety of their new crops.In an effort to combat misinformation and help ensure that genetically engineered crops...

When does bt corn pay?

By: Joan Olson

It all depends on prices and the unpredictable European corn borer.Market uncertainty about genetically modified crops, low commodity prices and two years...

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...

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...

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:...

The high cost of consolidation

By: 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...

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