20 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW 

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

Diversity key to glyphosate issue 

By: by Forrest Laws

In the last 15 years, glyphosate has become one of the most widely used herbicides in the world, eclipsing even atrazine as the workhorse of chemical weed control in row crops and a myriad of other uses...

Lawsuits stack up 

By: By Mark Moore

FAR BEYOND the farm fields, high-stakes battles in the seed industry are taking place in courtrooms. High-profile legal filings between industry heavyweights...

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...

Smarty Plants 

By: By Mark Moore

Just as insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant seed traits helped to increase crop yields, stress traits, the next step in the evolution of trait technology,...

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...

SmartStax receives U.S., Canadian approval 

The SmartStax corn trait has cleared a major regulatory approval, gaining registration from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and regulatory authorization from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency...

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...

Pioneer names products Optimum 

As Pioneer Hi-Bred gears up for the anticipated launch of its Optimum GAT corn and soybean products in 2010 and 2011, the company has announced that it...

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...