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ADM, Syngenta settle suit over biotech corn exports

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland has settled a lawsuit with Syngenta over the seed company’s launch of a biotech corn strain that roiled grain exports to China, according to regulatory documents filed on Friday. ADM sued Syngenta four years ago for selling the corn variety known as Agrisure Viptera or




China asks distillers dry grains’ buyers to report imports

beijing / reuters /China’s Commerce Ministry is expanding import reporting requirements to cover domestic buyers of the feed ingredient, distillers dried grains (DDGs), as Beijing aims to monitor its surging imports of major farm products. From June 1, importers of DDGs must report contracted import volumes, origins and arrival times twice a month, according to


German Farm Group Sees EU Relaxing GMO Import Rule

Germany’s association of farming co-operatives said it was optimistic the European Union will relax its ban on unapproved imports of tiny traces of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Without any such measure, EU imports of soybeans and soymeal could be disrupted once again in autumn 2010, said Manfred Nuessel, president of co-operatives association DRV. Millions of

EU Buys U. S. Soybeans

European Union oilseed crushers are resuming purchases of U. S. soybeans after the EU approved imports of maize with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Hamburgbased oilseeds analysts Oil World said Nov. 10. This summer, over 200,000 tonnes of soybean and soymeal were refused entry to EU ports as they contained small amounts of GMO corn (maize)