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...

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...

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...