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Corn growers in China are already illegally growing GMO corn, suggesting a robust market awaits seed companies.
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China’s Monsanto

Little-known Beijing biotech firm banks on GM corn in race to be China’s market leader

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Reuters – As China prepares to open its US$120-billion corn market to genetically modified (GM) seed, little-known Dabeinong Biotechnology hopes to reap the benefits of early biotech investments and a law keeping foreign firms on the sidelines. The long-anticipated commercialization of GM corn in the world’s No. 2 producer is set to significantly boost yields,
File photo of a Chinese cornfield. (Baona/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

China proposes new rules to ease GMO approvals

Leadership seeks 'turnaround' in seed sector

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Beijing | Reuters — China is planning changes to its seed regulations that will make it easier to approve genetically modified crops, a move seen as a critical step toward commercializing GM corn. The ministry of agriculture and rural affairs published a draft document late on Friday proposing a series of amendments to several different
China finds illegal work on genetically modified crops
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China finds illegal work on genetically modified crops

The nation has signalled it will accept the technology, but has not yet officially done so

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China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has found eight companies and research institutes that illegally produced or carried out research on genetically modified (GM) seeds. The companies included two seed marketing companies in northeast Liaoning province and two corn breeders in northwest Xinjiang province that were producing GM corn seed. The ministry said seeds
Since GM canola was first grown in 1996, numerous ‘escapes’ of all kinds of GM products have been observed.
Crops

Canadian GMO escapes common: report

That’s prompted a call for more regulatory oversight and deregistering GM alfalfa

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Better regulations are needed to prevent contamination from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). That’s what the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) and the SaskOrganics’ Organic Agriculture Protection Fund committee (OAPF) concludes in a report called GM Contamination in Canada: The failure to contain living modified organisms – incidents and impacts. Why it matters: GMOs found where
Crops

What’s CBAN’s stand on GM?

Its website claims there’s no scientific proof GM is safe. Health Canada begs to differ

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If the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) isn’t anti-GMO, it’s certainly not an advocate of the technology. “There is no scientific basis to conclude that GM foods are safe,” CBAN’s website says. “Research continues to raise serious questions about potential health hazards and more study is needed. The risks from eating GM foods have not
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Unknown origin

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“Life, uh… finds a way.” Those words, uttered by actor Jeff Goldblum in the 1993 science fiction blockbuster “Jurassic Park,” leapt to mind last week with word that a genetically modified wheat had been found along a field access road in southern Alberta. Goldblum’s character was blue-skying about exactly how a cohort of all-female dinosaurs
The CFIA announced on June 14 that seven genetically modified wheat plants had been found earlier this year.
Cereals, News

GM wheat in Alberta raises questions

CFIA stresses what’s most important is Canada’s commercial wheat and seed system are GM-free

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Regulators are scratching their heads after seven genetically modified wheat plants were found in Alberta. No country, including Canada, allows genetically modified (GM) wheat to be produced commercially, so the discovery raises questions, including some the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) can’t answer, like how it got there and the variety of wheat involved. However,
Opinion

Selling environmental benefits

New data management tools could help position Canadian agriculture 
as a sustainable supplier in the global marketplace

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As momentum behind the tools and concepts of precision agriculture continues to grow, one of the most exciting — but least talked about — opportunities is their ability to improve farming’s environmental footprint. That’s a shame, because that’s one attribute of this latest revolution in agriculture that is most likely to resonate with an increasingly
Princess Anne says she’d plant GMO crops on her own land if she were legally allowed to.
Crops, International news

U.K. royals’ sibling rivalry on GMOs?

Princess Anne made the approving comments about GMO crops during a BBC radio interview

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Britain’s Princess Anne may have sparked some royal sibling rivalry after saying genetically modified crops had real benefits to offer, putting her at odds with her older brother Charles who says they would be an environmental disaster. In an interview with BBC radio, Anne said she would grow GMO crops on her farming estates, adding
Comment, Opinion

Monsanto is dead. Now what?

The lightning rod for resentment won’t be there to kick around anymore

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It seems Monsanto is finally out of its misery. Arguably the most detested company in the world, it will likely cease to exist with Bayer’s acquisition. Monsanto’s own attempt to acquire Swiss-based Syngenta not only failed, but also was received with extreme prejudice. But now with Bayer’s acquisition of the St. Louis-based company, Monsanto, or

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