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Avoid ‘failed’ GM crop approach to combat ‘superweeds’
Donnelle Eller's eye-opening article on glyphosate-resistant Superweeds details a real threat to Iowa agriculture and raises important questions about responsibility and ...
Iowa governor calls for ‘vigilant’ defense of modern agriculture, including GMOs
Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday that state officials need to remain vigilant in their defense of modern agriculture, but he ...
New policies in Iowa to help grow state’s biotech industry
The close of the 2014 session of the Iowa Legislature brought new policy that will help grow the state's biotech ...
Former US Secretary of Agriculture Glickman criticizes organic industry for misleading marketing
A blockbuster report by the scientific-integrity watchdog Academics Review examines the last 25 years of academic and organic industry market ...
Dow challenges Monsanto with new seed and herbicide system
Dow AgroSciences looked on for years as agribusiness giant Monsanto dominated the genetically modified seed market. Now the seed and ...
Norman Borlaug’s daughter decries anti-GMO ‘fear mongering’
Julie Borlaug will be among dozens of family members coming to Washington next week to honor the 100th birthday of ...
Former US Ag Secretary John Block sizes up GM corn dispute with China
"As complex as the world trading system has become, it still fundamentally relies on something as simple as trust; Unfortunately, ...
Biotech crop opponents slowing federal approval
The opposition to biotech crops is slowing the approval by U.S. regulators of new genetically modified products that is hurting ...
Zambia native: Protesting GMOs ‘condemns millions to poverty’
(Summary) If more Zambian farmers had access to weed and weather resistant crops, 35-year-old Zambia native Kelvin Kamfwa told the Des ...
Farmers, not just scientists, support GMOs
Iowa farmers are speaking out in support of GMOs amid protests, writes Laurie Johnson, public relations manager for the Iowa ...
Borlaug: Biotech a necessary tool for increasing food security
Norman Borlaug's granddaughter explains why scientists must find better ways to make GMOs resonate with people in wake of negative ...
President of World Food Prize Foundation: Ag’s huge challenge is growing ever more larger
My friend Rekha Basu wrote a tough column in the June 30 Sunday Register that was sharply critical of the ...
Letter to the editor: ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ is at root of ‘Farmer Assurance Provision’
The following is an excerpt. I was surprised to read Rekha Basu’s column (“Deception Undermines Democracy,” April 5) and learn that she ...
How Prop 37 will impact Midwest farmers
The old battle between seed companies and opponents of genetically engineered agriculture is being waged anew in California, where voters ...
Genetically modified crops are, indeed different says GM critic
In the recent article in the Des Moines Register, “Ag critics called threat to economy” (April 6), Paul Shickler, Pioneer ...
