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Brewing Antitrust Fight In Seed

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Key players in the U. S. seed industry are working to head off an antitrust probe into allegations of unfair competition even as farm groups ratchet up pressure on the government to take action against what they say are escalating prices and constriction of market choice. Fresh concerns about unfair market dominance were raised on
Crops, Oilseeds

45H29 – for Dec. 17, 2009

It’s a symbol of Pioneer Hi-Bred’s leadership in providing valuable canola seed disease resistance traits. The first and only canola hybrid on the market with built-in clubroot resistance. TM When you see the new Pioneer Protector logo on your Pioneer brand canola hybrids, you’ll know your canola is protected. Roundup Ready is a registered trademark
Livestock, Oilseeds

Brazil Clears Planting Of Bayer GMO Soy

Brazil’s biotechnology agency CTNBio said Nov. 19 it approved the commercial planting of a genetically modified soybean variety produced by Bayer that’s resistant to glyphosate. Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soy, which is also resistant to glyphosate, is the only other GMO soy approved for commercial use in Brazil, which legalized the commercial use of transgenic crops,
Crops, Oilseeds

45S51 – for Dec. 10, 2009

It’s a symbol of Pioneer Hi-Bred’s leadership in providing valuable canola seed disease resistance traits. The first and only canola hybrid on the market with built-in sclerotinia resistance. TM When you see the new Pioneer Protector logo on your Pioneer brand canola hybrids, you’ll know your canola is protected. Roundup Ready is a registered trademark
Cereals, News

Briefs continued – for Dec. 3, 2009

Expanded role: Garth Hodges, with Bayer CropScience’s BioScience business based in Calgary, has been appointed global manager, wheat and oilseeds. Hodges’ new role within the global portfolio development signals a new focus for the company in the development of innovative solutions from seed to harvest for broad acre crops including wheat. Overall, it heralds a
Cereals, News

Wells Condemns Corporate Seed Power

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Afew very large seed corporations led by Monsanto have too much power over farmers, according to retiring National Farmers Union (NFU) president Stewart Wells. “With the rapid changes the seed companies are making to the system – seed registration, patent protection, seed contracts and inter-company seed agreements – Monsanto and the seed trade will quickly
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Nov. 26, 2009

If it doesn’t pay, don’t produce it Growing wheat for sale to the Canadian Wheat Board, I’ve ended up with $1.86 per bushel. From a total price of $11,626.02, I end up with $6,065.35; they took $5,560.67 for expenses, including weighing inspection ($44.35), elevator cleaning ($1,729.65), the freight adjustment ($1,398.62), rail freight ($2,344.34) and the
Crops, Oilseeds

Introducing Pioneer Protector™

It’s a symbol of Pioneer Hi-Bred leadership in canola seed traits: We’ve developed the very first hybrid with resistance to sclerotinia, Pioneer brand 45S51 (RR) and launched the only clubroot-resistant canola on the market: 45H29 (RR). When you see the new Pioneer Protector logo on your Pioneer brand seed, you know your canola is protected.
Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

RR Alfalfa Sparks Debate At CSTA

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“All it takes is one plot.” – LES JACOBSON, MFSA European forage seed companies are starting to require official testing and GM-free certification from Canadian exporters because of the existence of Roundup Ready alfalfa in test plots. “We are aware of Roundup Ready alfalfa trials in Canada and (are) therefore not happy, since Europe has
Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto Sees Accelerated Launch Of New Corn, Soy

Monsanto Co. said Nov. 10 that it expected accelerated launches of its new corn and soybean products and reaffirmed its outlook for 2010, sending its share up more than five per cent. Monsanto said it now expects its new Genuity SmartStax corn seed to launch on more than four million acres in 2010, up from

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