In this week’s Field Report: Trade wars that impact biodiversity, food company’s climate commitments fall short, and more. The post As the US Pressures Mexico to Import GM Corn, Can It Pres...
In 1998, Percy Schmeiser, a canola farmer on the plains of Saskatchewan, Canada received a letter from the agricultural biotech company Monsanto, claiming that he was growing its patented seeds i...
“The first concern of people, and why they gravitate toward organic, is because they are usually putting it in their mouths,” says Kathleen Delate, an Iowa State University professor and orga...
https://civileats.com/2021/03/15/what-will-it-take-for-farmers-to-grow-more-organic-cotton/
Over the past few years, Bayer (which now owns Monsanto) has repeatedly lost in court to those who have claimed its Roundup herbicide is responsible for their cancer diagnoses. Things appeared t...
Monsanto expected thousands of farmers to complain about its new weed killer drifting and harming their crops when it launched the new dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton cropping systems, docume...
(Update: The Oregon state legislature voted on June 30 to pass SB 885, which extends for five years the moratorium on growing more than 500 acres of canola in the Willamette Valley.) On July 1, a...
When Philip Howard of Michigan State University published the first iteration of his now well-known seed industry consolidation chart in 2008, it starkly illustrated the extent of acquisitions an...
https://civileats.com/2019/01/11/the-sobering-details-behind-the-latest-seed-monopoly-chart/
Food labels help consumers quickly discern whether their food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats, or MSG. This same right to know should be clearly offered for foods...
“I apologize if my anger comes across too strongly,” says Gary Hooser, on the phone from the island of Kauai in Hawaii, “but these companies sued my county for the right to use pesticides n...
https://civileats.com/2018/06/20/hawaii-shows-states-power-to-regulate-pesticides/
The United States is importing more organic corn and soybeans than it’s producing, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. Despite a s...
https://civileats.com/2018/06/01/in-high-demand-small-organic-soy-and-corn-farmers-stand-to-win/