Patent Paralysis 

By: 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...

Business of buying 

Cat enters Big Red countryCaterpillar's high-tech acre eater, the Lexion series of combines, will now carry the label "assembled in Nebraska." Although...

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...

Cloning plants 

Eventually corn may reproduce itself without loss in hybrid vigor.Diligent research and biotechnology have again scored another amazing feat. Researchers...

Switch on crop protection 

By: 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 plants 

Eventually corn may reproduce itself without loss in hybrid vigor.Diligent research and biotechnology have again scored another amazing feat. Researchers...

Farmers' "take" on trait seed 

By: 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...

Accessing Seed technologies Will your local seed supplier have the seeds you want? 

By: Joan Olson

Biotechnology is revolutionizing the seed industry and U.S. agriculture. Over the last 24 months, we have witnessed unprecedented changes in the roster...

Which Bt to buy? 

By: Jodie Wehrspann

AgrEvo expects anywhere between 1 and 1.2 million U.S. corn acres to be planted to its new StarLink Bt corn hybrids that control European corn borer (ECB),...

Triple-, quad-stack hybrids 

New 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...