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EU farmers ‘fed up’ with rapeseed as neonicotinoid insecticide ban, dry weather cripple crop yields

Megan Durisin, Olivia Konotey-Ahulu | Bloomberg | 
Rapeseed, easily spotted with its bright yellow flowers in summer, is used for meal and oil in products ranging from ...
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Glyphosate label war escalates: Spurning EPA objections, California keeps cancer Prop. 65 warning on herbicide

Emily Dooley | Bloomberg | 
California has no plans to change its rule that certain products containing the herbicide glyphosate require warnings to consumers that ...
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Roundup on trial: Glyphosate-cancer settlement talks progress, but report of an $8 billion payout is ‘pure fiction’

Jef Feeley, Joel Rosenblatt, Tim Loh | Bloomberg | 
Bayer AG is proposing to pay as much as $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging its ...
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Roundup trial: Bayer’s glyphosate-cancer legal losses signal public’s flagging trust in regulators

Adam Allington | Bloomberg | 
Jurors have sided with plaintiffs in all three cases over Bayer AG’s herbicide Roundup to go to trial so far, ...
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UK may reject strict EU GMO rules, but nation’s farmers can’t grow biotech crops yet

Megan Durisin | Bloomberg | 
British farmers could get the chance to plant genetically modified crops as part of Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans. The new ...
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Some farmers earn more money defending GMOs on YouTube than they do growing food

Denitsa Tsekova | Bloomberg | 
It’s a sign of the times when farmers make more money advocating for the industry on social media than actually ...
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Viewpoint: We need GMO, CRISPR-edited crops to help feed 10 billion people

Deena Shanker | Bloomberg | 
If we want to feed 10 billion people by 2050, in a world beset by rising temperatures and scarcer water ...
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EU ‘probably won’t’ re-approve Bayer’s glyphosate weed killer after 2022, German agriculture minister says

Tim Loh | Bloomberg | 
German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner said glyphosate herbicide probably won’t have enough support to gain re-authorization for use in the ...
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If Bayer settles glyphosate-cancer lawsuits, final costs could range from $2.5-$20 billion

Tim Loh | Bloomberg | 
There’s a $2.5 billion question hanging over Bayer AG. Or perhaps a $20 billion question, depending on who you ask ...
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‘Innovative’ GMO Impossible burger could help support US soybean growers, says USDA chief Sonny Perdue

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Sonny Perdue may be a champion of agriculture and agribusinesses in all its forms. But even he isn’t immune to ...
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French rapeseed yields hit 14-year low following drought, neonicotinoid insecticide ban

Megan Durisin | Bloomberg | 
French farmers are getting so tired of beetles chomping on their rapeseed that some of them may decide to further ...
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Surgically implanted chips could boost memory for people with traumatic brain injuries

Caroline Winter | Bloomberg | 
Over the past five years, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has invested $77 million to develop devices ...
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These drugs could replace chemotherapy with fewer ‘disruptive side effects’

Kanoko Matsuyama | Bloomberg | 
A class of drugs is emerging that can attack cancer cells in the body without damaging surrounding healthy ones. They ...
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Lab-grown sushi could help meet booming seafood demand, cut overfishing

Josh Petri, Lydia Mulvany | Bloomberg | 
Salmon has become the guinea pig of the seas when it comes to using technology to supplement falling fish populations ...
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GMO Bt crops slow global spread of fall armyworm pest, but some bugs resistant to insecticidal plants

Jason Gale | Bloomberg | 
The fall armyworm is hungry, on the move and scaring farmers the world over. The crop-devouring pest has spread from ...
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Will GMO-wary China accept virus-resistant CRISPR pigs?

Kristine Servando | Bloomberg | 
As China struggles to stem a contagious, hog-ravaging disease, a British company offers some hope. But it may first need ...
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Why having a risky genetic mutation isn’t necessarily doom and gloom

Michelle Cortez | Bloomberg | 
Most people think carrying a gene variant associated with a disease means automatically getting that disease, according to Sekar Kathiresan, ...
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Viewpoint: $2 billion glyphosate-cancer damages highlight why science is ‘no match’ for a persuasive lawyer

Chris Hughes | Bloomberg | 
Bayer AG hoped it could rely on science to establish the safety of its Roundup weedkiller. But it has clearly ...
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Jury in third glyphosate-cancer trial orders Bayer to pay over $2 billion in damages—eighth-largest ever product-defect claim

Joel Rosenblatt | Bloomberg | 
Bayer AG was ordered to pay more than $2 billion in damages to a California couple that claimed they got ...
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Nigeria approves two GMO cotton varieties anticipated to boost production from 60,000 to 150,000 tons

Ruth Olurounbi | Bloomberg | 
Nigeria approved two genetically modified varieties of cotton for use by the nation’s farmers to help boost supply to its ...
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Gene therapy could be revolutionary—if we can figure out how to pay for it

James Paton | Bloomberg | 
Dozens of revolutionary gene therapies that mend faulty strands of DNA are on their way, bringing the power to eliminate ...
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Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren promises reversal of Bayer-Monsanto merger to end corporate ‘stranglehold’ on farmers

Mike Dorning | Bloomberg | 
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren promised to break up big agricultural businesses to end their “stranglehold” over farmers and mount ...
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GMO crop approvals focal point of trade talks as US urges China to boost agricultural imports

Isis Almeida | Bloomberg | 
China has offered the U.S. some “very attractive numbers” for purchases of farm goods as part of “dynamic” trade talks, ...
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US agriculture official slams EU’s ‘backward-looking’ GMO crop import rules

Isis Almeida | Bloomberg | 
A U.S. agriculture official took a swipe at the European Union’s import policies in agriculture, a sector America has been ...
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Digital agriculture: Data-gathering robots, drones may be the future of farming

Andrew Noel | Bloomberg | 
For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept ...
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Argentina fears skeptical consumers could cripple global rollout of drought-tolerant GMO wheat

Jonathan Gilbert | Bloomberg | 
Argentina thinks it has a solution to droughts that’ve plagued blockbuster wheat producers from the Black Sea to Australia. The ...
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Biotech startup aims to challenge ‘Big Ag’s’ dominance in the US seed market

Elizabeth Dunn | Bloomberg | 
Farmers don’t have a reputation for skewing to the political left, but just get them talking about seeds. At an ...
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Bayer’s legal woes multiply as chemical giant battles onslaught of glyphosate, dicamba lawsuits

Joel Rosenblatt, Margaret FIsk | Bloomberg | 
Many Bayer AG investors didn’t realize just how much litigation risk they were getting when the German company spent $66 ...
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