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China backs GMO soybeans in push for high-tech agriculture

By Reuters August 10, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beijing | Reuters — China will push for the commercialization of genetically modified soybeans over the next five years as it seeks to raise the efficiency of its agriculture sector, potentially boosting output of the crop by the world’s top soy importer and consumer. China, which has spent billions of dollars researching GMO crops, has […] Read more

Crops, General

Wilf Keller elected new AIC board chair

By Country Guide Staff July 28, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Wilf Keller is the new head of the Agricultural Institute of Canada. Keller is a well-known agricultural researcher who has worked for nearly 40 years mainly in the field of biotechnology development and application for the genetic modification of crops. In this time he has led numerous major research efforts. Keller worked at the Research […] Read more

Plant of the young corn on field,selective focus

Crops, Opinion

The GMO debate is far from over

The labelling issue is more about perceived risk or benefit than it is about science

By Harwood D. Schaffer and Daryll E. Ray July 4, 2016

Reading Time: 4 minutes With the Vermont GMO (genetically modified organism) labelling law now in effect, a number of companies has begun to voluntarily label all of their products sold anywhere in the U.S. rather than end up having to produce different labels for different states. They are, in effect, treating the Vermont law as the national standard for GMO […] Read more

Guide Business, Opinion

Selling our consumers

While farmers strive to educate consumers, marketers bend the rules

By Gerald Pilger March 22, 2016

Reading Time: 5 minutes On January 7, the New York Times covered the news that Campbell Soup would become the first major U.S. food company to come out in support of mandatory GMO labelling. It was the same day that Campbell’s CEO Denise Morrison sent a letter to her employees, saying the policy change came from the company’s focus […] Read more

Rather than apologizing for bringing biotech developments to farmers, most farmers and scientists point to societal benefits like the sustainable, dependable production of high-quality, affordable food.

Crops

After twenty years has biotechnology really lived up to its promise?

The benefits of biotechnology have been undeniable to farmers, in spite of challenges from resistance

By Ralph Pearce March 10, 2016

Reading Time: 6 minutes Farmers were practically guaranteed that we were entering a whole new era in agri-food production. Because of something called transgenics, we were going to have higher yields, lower costs, and all sorts of unimagineable farm efficiencies, not to mention that, thanks to this technology, we’d be able to feed the world. But 20 years later, […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

BASF to cut half the jobs in plant biotech unit

By Reuters February 25, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Leverkusen, Germany | Reuters –– BASF, the world’s largest chemicals group by sales, will cut half of the 700 jobs at its plant biotechnology business, slashing some early development projects in yield improvement and stress tolerance and all of its rice yield and corn fungal resistance projects. BASF’s plant biotechnology unit is developing improved plant […] Read more

Guide Business, Opinion

The great debate of our lives

I plant GMO crops, but I’m alarmed at how little we listen to the concerns of the anti-GMO lobby. The risk is huge

By Gerald Pilger December 14, 2015

Reading Time: 8 minutes The biggest threat to farming as we know it in North America isn’t low commodity prices, high input costs or the lack of skilled labour. It isn’t even climate change. Instead, our worst threat is the growing perception that the food we produce is not safe. This fall, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) released […] Read more

Crops

The next ‘biotechnology’

Faster to market, with even more potential usage, microbial innovations are set to enhance today’s biotech options

By Ralph Pearce November 12, 2015

Reading Time: 7 minutes When the word “biotech” first leapt onto the agri-food scene, there were plenty of proponents and opponents for the science of implanting different genes into corns, soybean and canola genetics. The first Bt hybrids offered yield advantages, and the early days of glyphosate-tolerant soybeans saw cost savings that began with weed management practices but also […] Read more

Maria DeRosa has developed a DON test using aptamers, which are synthetic pieces of DNA.

Cereals, Crops

Mycotoxin detection may get even simpler, cheaper

WGRF-funded research produces test that can detect fusarium toxins at the elevator

By Clare Stanfield November 6, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s a typical kind of research story,” says Maria DeRosa with a knowing laugh. “Something doesn’t quite work and you think, oh no! This isn’t what I anticipated. But then it turns into an opportunity you hadn’t thought of before.” She’s right, of course. Science is littered with stories of successful accidents, and for DeRosa, […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans

The biotech industry, two decades later

Biotechnology is ready to turn 20, but it still hasn’t won the public relations battle

By Ralph Pearce November 21, 2014

Reading Time: 5 minutes Biotechnology has been part of the farm landscape for nearly a generation, becoming a staple of agriculture in North America and spreading around the world. Yet there is still a vocal minority of non-farmers who are opposed to biotechnology. And it can seem like their number and their power is growing. Now the question is, […] Read more

Daily Network News

Feed grain weekly: Barley bids rise with crude and corn

CBOT Weekly: Gains in commodities amidst Iran conflict differ from Ukraine war

Egg Farmers of Canada sees more hens, greater egg demand in 2025

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