Across all of Brazilian agriculture, pesticide use rose 1.6-fold between 2000 and 2012, and increased 3-fold in soybean production. The majority of these increases were driven by pest management challenges on fields planted to genetically engineered (GE) corn, soybeans, and cotton. The land area in Brazil devoted to GE crops rose from 3 million hectares […]
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Note — On October 11, 2017, Carey Gillam gave an invited address before the joint committee of the European Parliament’s Joint Session on Glyphosate held in Brussels, Belgium. Her presentation was filmed and posted on the European Parliament’s website. Hygeia Analytics has augmented Ms. Gillam’s presentation, drawing on her slides and our timeline of the […]
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While Bayer’s $57 billion deal to acquire Monsanto has received regulatory approvals in most of the world, it has not in the European Union. EU competition law is, in general, stricter than U.S. law. There are also huge differences, especially now, in willingness to enforce existing competition laws in Europe versus the U.S. An active […]
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Note — Guest blog by Steve Smith, Director of Agriculture, Red Gold, and founder and chairman of the Save Our Crops Coalition (SOCC). It is a lightly edited version of an October 14, 2017 email update sent by Steve Smith to the active members of SOCC. At the request of readers, more information is included on […]
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Biotech, seed, and ag chemical industry news over the last 18 months has been dominated by the process and impacts of three big mergers — Bayer buying Monsanto, Dow and DuPont merging and then splitting off a combined ag business, and ChemChina’s purchase of Syngenta. It was inevitable that in this process of consolidation within […]
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As predicted, the EPA has announced that it will allow use in 2018 of dicamba on dicamba-resistant soybeans and cotton, despite the serious problems that occurred in 2017. The acting chief of the herbicide branch, Reuben Baris, said the EPA has not yet decided on the “safeguards” it will impose in a September 19, 2017 […]
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Out west in Washington State, Stemilt is rapidly expanding the acreage producing organic apples. Its supply of organic apples will be up 55% in 2017, compared to the 2016 crop. Honeycrisp volume will rise 250%, and fuji volume will be up 90%. Today, about 30% of Stemilt’s extensive apple acreage is managed organically. Virtually all […]
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A highly-respected farm magazine editor, Greg Horstmeier, has called a spade a spade re the unfolding, dicamba crop-damage train wreck occurring across corn-soybean country. This is a must-read piece, because of the important historical context it provides. Horstmeier’s play-by-play of how we got here is a chilling account of how badly farm industry leaders and […]
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A Professor of Geography at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Dr. William G. Moseley, has written a short, compelling essay in Geographical Review that explains clearly why genetically engineered crop technology, and particularly today’s GE crops, are not now and never will contribute in a meaningful way to global food security. First, Moseley explains […]
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In a recent opinion piece in the Capital Press, Jerry Erstrom, the chairman of the Weed Board in Malheur County in southeastern Oregon, spoke out in support of holding ag businesses accountable for the damage caused by cross-pollination from GE crops. Malheur County is in the heart of ranch country and right next door to the […]
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