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No need seen for new EU rules to protect butterflies from GM crops

By GFM Network News July 2, 2015

Brussels | Reuters — European food safety officials found there was no need to widen buffer zones around genetically modified (GM) crops even though research shows pollen from GM maize can travel kilometres further than previously thought. The buffer zones to protect vulnerable species, such as butterflies, have been part of heated debate in Europe […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

White House directs U.S. GMO regulators to update oversight

By GFM Network News July 2, 2015

Reuters — The White House on Thursday directed the three U.S. agencies that oversee biotech crop products to improve and modernize their regulatory “framework” to boost public confidence in a system that critics call a failure. The order, announced in a statement by President Barack Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, followed demands by […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Groups urge tighter controls as U.S. considers GM crop regulation

By GFM Network News June 22, 2015

Reuters — Dozens of consumer and food groups and businesses asked the U.S. government on Monday for tighter regulation of genetically engineered crops, calling the current system a “failure.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture has said it was considering changes to the way it regulates biotech crops and set a public comment period that expired […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

EU approves first new genetically modified crops since 2013

By GFM Network News April 24, 2015

Brussels | Reuters –– The European Union cleared the import of 10 new types of genetically modified crops and two more kinds of cut flowers on Friday, its first authorizations in more than a year after a review of its blocked approval process. The European Commission said it had authorized 10 new types of maize, […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Export sales mission to Asia

Sarah Weigum travels to Japan to learn more about international ag sales

By Sarah Weigum March 11, 2015

If it hadn’t been such a rainy harvest, I may not have found myself on a flight to Tokyo last November. I can’t remember if I was waiting for a shower to dry up or the snow to melt, but one morning in early September I read an article in one of the farm papers […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Green group targets Super Bowl’s official hummus

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 23, 2015

If you’re a chickpea grower and you didn’t already know it, you’ll be pleased to hear Americans watching the Super Bowl this weekend might not only be chowing down on chicken wings. Thanks to its designation as the National Football League’s (NFL) official dip sponsor, they could also be dipping into Sabra brand hummus, of […] Read more

A new technique for “biocontainment” of GMOs may allow the technology to be used to make microbes for uses ranging from producing yogurt to cleaning up toxic waste. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Reuters

Scientists create ‘genetic firewall’ for new forms of life

By GFM Network News January 21, 2015

New York | Reuters — A year after creating organisms that use a genetic code different from every other living thing, two teams of scientists have achieved another “synthetic biology” milestone: They created bacteria that cannot survive without a specific manmade chemical, potentially overcoming a major obstacle to wider use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Germany to press EU for national right to ban GMOs before 2015 harvest

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 14, 2014

Berlin | Reuters — Germany is pressing the European Commission to allow individual EU countries to ban cultivation of crops with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) before the 2015 harvest. German farm minister minister Christian Schmidt said “social-economic reasons” should be taken into account to allow a European Union country to ban GMO crops even when […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

EU moves step closer to law on national GMO crop bans

By GFM Network News November 12, 2014

Brussels | Reuters — EU politicians on Tuesday backed a plan to allow nations to ban genetically modified crops on their soil even if they are given approval to be grown in the European Union, raising the chance their use will remain limited on the continent. Widely grown in the Americas and Asia, GM crops […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

GMO battles over ‘settled’ science spur new study of crops

By GFM Network News November 11, 2014

Reuters — Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, and its brethren of global biotech crop developers are spreading the word that as far as the safety of their genetically modified grain goes, the science is solidly on their side. The message of “settled” science has become the rallying cry for defenders of the crops and […] Read more

GFM Network News

China to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans this season, Bessent says

Canada’s Carney to meet China’s Xi in South Korea

India slaps 30 per cent import duty on yellow peas

Tag Archives GMO

No need seen for new EU rules to protect butterflies from GM crops

White House directs U.S. GMO regulators to update oversight

Groups urge tighter controls as U.S. considers GM crop regulation

EU approves first new genetically modified crops since 2013

Export sales mission to Asia

Green group targets Super Bowl’s official hummus

Scientists create ‘genetic firewall’ for new forms of life

Germany to press EU for national right to ban GMOs before 2015 harvest

EU moves step closer to law on national GMO crop bans

GMO battles over ‘settled’ science spur new study of crops

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