An alliance of Greens alleges that a key study in the approval process may have been copied in part from ...
January 17, 2019
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit against dicamba [the week of January 7], but left open ...
January 16, 2019
A French court canceled the license for one of Monsanto's glyphosate-based weedkillers on [January 15] over safety concerns, placing an ...
The scope of [agricultural] advances during the past three years is nothing short of astonishing. Today’s growers now have at ...
January 15, 2019
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs or GMs) are one of the most well-studied areas of biological and agricultural research. However, one ...
Health Canada is following in the European Union’s footsteps as it moves to ban the use of neonic pesticides due ...
January 15, 2019
I recently had an encounter on Twitter with the CEO of the Organic Trade Association (OTA), Laura Batcha. The OTA ...
January 14, 2019
Health Canada’s primary objective in regulating pesticides is to protect Canadians’ health and the environment. That is why the Department ...
Food fraud is a substantial problem....because it is nearly impossible for consumers to tell the difference between, say, conventional and ...
These stories shaped a tumultuous year for agricultural biotech ...
January 10, 2019
A major new project will see the use of spiders’ natural toxins to offer a more sustainable approach to crop ...
Bayer’s Monsanto is facing thousands of lawsuits from plaintiffs claiming exposure to glyphosate gave them cancer. Last August, a jury ...
Nigeria has commenced a historic process of leading other African nations on smart and innovative agriculture with the recent application ...
The future of a controversial agricultural pesticide remains in limbo, thanks to scientific uncertainty and political malfeasance ...
China’s approval of new genetically engineered crops will open a new front in U.S. farmers’ long-running war against hard-to-kill weeds ...
I confess I don’t read that many books in a year – preferring shorter Internet features instead – but I’m ...
January 7, 2019
Bayer shares rose by more than 6 percent [January 4], a day after a key court ruling in the upcoming ...
December 21, 2018
Anti-GMO activists have churned out memes critical of GM crops and food. Now science enthusiasts are fighting back with fact-based ...
December 19, 2018
Cotton farmers in Kenya are set to start planting genetically modified cotton by May 2020, a year later than expected, ...
More than 99% of [fruits and vegetable] samples tested in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Pesticide Data Program had residue ...
We all have them. This brother-in-law or sister-in-law, who is very active on social networks. You accepted his friendly request for family ...
Famous environmental advocate Erin Brockovich says glyphosate causes cancer. Here's why she's wrong ...
Do you remember those spectacular images of rats fed GMO corn with invasive cancers, so big that the tumors looked like ...
[UK] Farming Minister George Eustice has admitted the recent ban on neonicotinoids has actually increased overall pesticide use. Mr Eustice made ...
A quick look at some of the technical strategies being pursued in farming robotics and AI ...
Should John Oliver decide that he’s had enough, perhaps because generating sarcasm is exhausting, there is someone who can slip ...
That’s right: it’s almost time for the jolly old fat man to visit homes around the world to deliver presents ...