Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and eight cosponsors on Dec. 12 introduced the Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act of 2013.
Europe's second-highest court has overturned a decision by the European Commission to allow the cultivation and sale of a genetically modified potato developed by German chemicals group BASF.
GrainCorp has consulted with leading domestic and international maltsters and brewers to provide Australian growers with the earliest possible clarification of preferred malting barley varieties for the coming 2014/15 season.
United States soybean exporters are boosting sales to China's edible oil and feed market as many Chinese companies have turned to cheaper US soybeans in the past three months.
DuPont is launching on the market Coragen®, an innovative solution to control a harmful insect of potato crops, the Tuber Moth, that recently is increasingly damaging potato fields in the warmest countries of the Mediterranean area.
FAS Istanbul efforts to introduce pecans to the Turkish market have resulted in an initial import of pecans from the state of Georgia in the amount of 2 metric tons valued at $35,000.
Critics of genetically modified crops have introduced new measures to limit the spread of biotech corn, soy and other crops on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
Being the biggest rice exporter in the world, Vietnam’s rice production faces high risks: it imports rice varieties, fertilizer from China and exports big amounts of products to the country.
Swiss group Syngenta AG, which specialises in producing seeds and pesticides, plans to enter the Angolan market in 2014, the group’s director for Africa and the Middle East, Jan Suter said in Basel.
China's quality watchdog said on Friday that China has recently rejected 60,000 tonnes of corn imports from the United States which contains unapproved transgenic content.
