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Deep, permeable soils buffer impacts of crop fertilizer on Amazon streams, MBL study finds

(Marine Biological Laboratory) An MBL study in the fast-changing southern Amazon--a region marked by widespread replacement of native forest by cattle ranches and croplands--suggests that some of the damaging impacts of agricultural fertilization on...

Report sees worldwide benefits from biotech crops

CHICAGO — Farmers worldwide enjoyed nearly $20 billion in net economic benefits from the adoption ofgenetically modified crops in the year 2011 alone, according to a new report. “The economic benefits farmers realize are clear and amounte...

GSK partners with venture capitalist to back start-ups

A GlaxoSmithKline / venture capitalist fund of some $495 million is to be committed to a crop of pharma start-ups. In a deal worth almost half a billion US dollars, GlaxoSmithKline is partnering with an experienced venture capitalist to find new sta...

Tuesday's most followed in the U.S. including: DuPont, Travelers, Bank of America, Lexmark, Coach, Netflix and Xerox

  U.S. shares gained on Tuesday as earnings from DuPont Co. (NYSE:DD) to Coach Inc. (NYSE:COH) surpassed projections. The 30-member Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) rose for a third day. Tuesday's most followed shares also included N...

Syngenta Holds Annual General Meeting

BASEL, Switzerland, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Annual General Meeting of Syngenta AG on April 23, 2013, the 1,142 shareholders representing 48.27% of the total shares approved all the motions proposed by the Board of Directors. Shareholders also approved a dividend of CHF 9.50 per share, an increase of 19% over the previous year. Martin Taylor retired from his position as Chairman of...

NTRR Broadens Scope of Medical Marijuana Initiative to Include International Markets

As new legislation opens up markets for medical marijuana (MMJ) around the globe, Neutra Crop. (OTCBB: NTRR), a growing provider of all-natural wellness solutions, plans to make its MMJ initiative international in scope. With nations such as Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic and more following the example of states such as California and Colorado...

Global economic benefits of GM crops reach almost $100 billion

Press release: 22 April 2013: Dorchester, UK:  In the sixteenth year of widespread adoption, crop biotechnology has delivered an unparalleled level of farm income benefit to the farmers, as well as providing considerable environmental benefits to both farmers and citizens of countries where the technology is used. "Where farmers have been given the choice of growing GM crops, ad...

Global economic benefits of GM crops (GMO) reach almost $100 billlion

Press release: 22 April 2013: Dorchester, UK:  In the sixteenth year of widespread adoption, crop biotechnology has delivered an unparalleled level of farm income benefit to the farmers, as well as providing considerable environmental benefits to both farmers and citizens of countries where the technology is used. "Where farmers have been given the choice of growing GM crops, ado...

Metabolix to Present Advances in Biopolymer Technology at ANTEC Conference

Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX), an innovation-driven bioscience company focused on delivering sustainable solutions for plastics, chemicals and energy, today announced that its researchers will make technical presentations at the ANTEC Conference being held April 22-25 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Metabolix researchers will present new data showing that its biobas...

Plant Impact making headway

Turnover at crop productivity specialist Plant Impact (LON:PIM) was in line with expectations in a truncated interim period. The company, which is in the process of changing its financial year-end, said turnover for the four months to the end of Janu...

Cocktail of multiple pressures combine to threaten the world's pollinating insects

(Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) A new review of insect pollinators of crops and wild plants has concluded they are under threat globally from a cocktail of multiple pressures, and their decline or loss could have profound environmental, human health...

For development in Brazil, 2 crops are better than 1

(Brown University) Brazil is in the midst of an explosion of agricultural production, but who is profiting from that production -- wealthy land owners and investors or average Brazilians is the subject of debate. New research from Brown University su...

Organically grown crops do not a cropping system make and nor can organic agriculture nearly feed the world

The title of Seufert et al. (2012) was wrongly chosen. It should more appropriately have read “Comparative yields of crops grown with organic or chemical fertilizer”. David J. ConnorCrops Research Volume 144, 20 March 2013, Pages 145–147QUOTE...The paper is of special interest because it is a sequel to a previous controversy in which this journal participated (Connor, 2008). That paper...

Does the scientific literature suggest the need for mandatory process-based labeling of GE food?

Does the scientific literature suggest the need for mandatoryprocess-based labe

BIO Asks Florida Gov. Scott to Preserve the State’s RFS

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today urged Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) to veto HB 4001/SB 320, which is anticipated to be passed by the Florida legislature next week and repeal the state’s Renewable Fuel Standard. BIO’s letter to Scott says that adoption of the legislation could chill investment not just in the state’s biofuel industr...

Grain handlers wary of toxin lingering in '12 U.S. corn harvest

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Problems with the toxic residue of a mold that attacked the 2012 drought-hit U.S. corn crop may worsen this summer and autumn as Midwest farmers blend off tainted supplies held in storage, grain experts say.

Rosebud Magazine, finalist for three categories in MAGGIE Awards 2013

VANCOUVER, April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Rosebud Magazine is honored to be the finalist for the three categories in the 2013 Western Publishing Association MAGGIE Awards. The winners will be announced at the MAGGIE Banquet being held the evening of Friday April 26, at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel at Los Angeles Airport. Rasebud Magazine has been chosen as a finalist in all the categories it...

Sowing seeds of discord | The Australian

STEVE Marsh and Michael Baxter grew up like bush twins in a small southern sheep and wheatbelt rural community near Kojonup, Western Australia.As small boys they attended tiny Glenorchy rural school; later they went to the same parties and worked in the same shearing sheds...But now the two farmers, neighbours and universally

Epigenetics and crop improvement

Figure 1 The phenotype of an organism is controlled through variation in genotype, epigenetics...Author Nathan M. SpringerSummaryThere is considerable excitement about the potential for epigenetic information to contribute to heritable variati

Fertility needs in high-yielding corn production

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Although advances in agronomy, breeding, and biotechnology have dramatically increased corn grain yields, soil test values indicate that producers may not be supply...

ISB News: Conservation Tillage, Herbicide Use, and Genetically Engineered Soybeans in the U.S.A.

ISB News April 2013J. Fernandez-Cornejo, Ch. Hallahan, R. Nehring, S. Wechsler, and A. GrubeConclusionsUsing a panel data set covering 12 States and 11 years (from 1996 to 2006) we find that HT soybean adoption leads to a significant increase in the adoption of conservation tillage. A one-percent increase in HT soybean adoption leads to a 0.21 percent increase in conservation tillage. In addition,...

MtnHoney Wins 'Best Taste'

CLARKESVILLE, Ga., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Virginia Webb, master beekeeper and producer of MtnHoney pure, raw, natural honey products, has been awarded top honors at the 2012 Black Jar Honey Contest sponsored by the Center for Honeybee Research in Asheville, NC. Voted "Best Tasting Honey in the USA," Webb's 2012 Sourwood Honey was selected from entries throughout the United States. A...

Monsanto and Bayer CropScience in deals to share technology

April 16 (Reuters) - Global biotech seed giant Monsanto Co and rival Bayer CropScience said Tuesday they have signed a series of cross-licensing deals to share certain crop biotechnology for weed and pest control. Monsanto said it will provide Bayer...

Metabolix to Conduct a Webcast of Its First Quarter Fiscal Year 2013 Earnings Call

Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX), an innovation-driven bioscience company delivering sustainable solutions to the plastics, chemicals and energy industries, announced today that it will be releasing its first quarter fiscal year 2013 financial results after the market close on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The full text of the earnings release will also be availab...

Oxitec and Chinese Scientists Collaborate in Developing Male-only Silkworm Strain to Help Boost Silk Production

OXFORD, England, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Oxitec today announced the development of strains of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, which allow production of exclusively male populations and could greatly enhance the efficiency of silk farming. Writing in the international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/03/1221700110 abstra...