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One Million Petition EU To Halt GM Crop Approvals

January 13, 2011

Campaigners presented a petition of more than a million signatures to the EU executive on Dec. 9, demanding a halt to approvals of new genetically modified (GM) crops. The petition is seen as a test case for the “European citizen’s initiative,” introduced under the EU’s new constitutional treaty, which enables a million or more people

Oilseeds, Opinion

Letters – for Jan. 6, 2011

January 6, 2011

Veterinarians under control Please allow me to correct several comments in the story “Three ranchers face court over TB testing,” page 14 of the Nov. 25 issue of theManitoba Co-operatorregarding bovine tuberculosis (TB) testing and court cases. I, and several other of the ever-increasing number of producers who have experienced health problems in their herds

Crops

Anti-GE Crop Bill Survives But Not For Long

By Alex Binkley December 9, 2010

A n NDP bill that industry officials say could cripple the development of new genetically engineered crops in Canada has gained an extra bit of parliamentary life but seems destined to flame out early next year. The NDP caucus used parliamentary rules in early December to force almost a full day of debate, probably in

Crops, Oilseeds

Brazil To Produce GMO-Free Soy Seed

By Peter Murphy November 25, 2010

World No. 2 soy grower Brazil has launched a program to produce more GMO-free seed as modified varieties marketed by multinational biotech firms are squeezing out the conventional type. The program will focus on Brazil’s top soy state, Mato Grosso, and comes in response to growers’ increasing difficulty in finding sufficient conventional soy seed to

Grain Markets

EU Reviews GM Crop Assessment Rules

November 18, 2010

BRUSSELS/REUTERS The EU’s food-safety watchdog issued new guidelines Nov. 12 for assessing the environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) plants, as part of a shakeup of the bloc’s GM crop approval system. The guidelines from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) set out new assessment procedures for biotech companies when submitting GM crops for EU

News

INRA Halts Research On Developing New GMO Varieties

By Sybille De La Hamaide November 11, 2010

Europe’s top farm researcher has abandoned work on developing new genetically modified crops (GMOs) due to widespread distrust and even hostility by European consumers. “We have no research on GMO innovation anymore, none,” Marion Guillou, president of the National Institute for Agronomical Research (INRA), told Reuters in an interview. INRA, which has more than 1,800

Cereals, News

GM Maize Trials To Begin In East Africa Researchers

By Katy Migiro October 21, 2010

Confined field trials of genetically modified maize will begin in Kenya and Uganda this year once regulators approve it, the U. S.-based non-profit African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) said. Scientists from Kenyan and Ugandan government research bodies, Monsanto and research body International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) developed the 12 varieties of Water Efficient

Crops

CropLife Canada Promotes Technology Innovation

September 30, 2010

CropLife Canada has published its case for the continued use of pesticides and the pursuit of biotechnology to sustainably feed the world. The documentWe Stand for Sustainabilityoutlines the three P’s behind its position – people, planet and prosperity – and spells out how crop protection products and biotechnology can help feed the world’s growing population

Crops, Oilseeds

Flax-Testing Protocols Tightened – for Aug. 19, 2010

By Laura Rance-Unger August 19, 2010

Flax delivered into the commercial grain-handling system this fall will face more rigorous and costly testing procedures to ensure it is CDC Triffid free than were in place last year, the Flax Council of Canada says. As of Sept. 1, commercial deliveries will undergo the same degree of testing for the genetically modified flax variety

News

EU Approves Six GM Maize Varieties – for Aug. 5, 2010

August 5, 2010

The European Commiss ion approved six genetically modified (GM) maize varieties for import to the bloc July 28 in a sign of its desire to speed up European Union decisions on the cont roversial technology. The EU’s executive granted the approvals unilaterally after EU farm ministers failed to reach a decision on the applications in

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