The Institute for Responsible Technology, an organization opposed to crop biotechnology, has published a list of reasons to avoid GMOs—that is, genetically modified food. It's a mish-mash of ...

Some of the most popular products of biotechnology — corn and cotton plants that have been genetically modified to fend off insects — are no longer offering the same protection from those bugs.

If that last scenario sounds a little farfetched, ask an alfalfa or sugar beet grower who adopted varieties of those crops improved by biotechnology, then watched as the investment was threatened ...

These days, 80 percent of the corn, cotton and soybeans are the products of biotech. A report released Tuesday by the National Research Council committee finds that crops produced through genetic ...

Biotech crops reached 160 million hectares, up 12 million hectares on 8% growth, from 2010, as the global population reached a historical milestone of 7 billion on 31 October 2011. 11.5% of the total ...

The world's farmland planted with biotechnology crops reached 252 million acres in 2006, the industry-backed International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications calculated in a ...

Scientists Call For More Access To Biotech Crop Data Date: April 29, 2008 Source: University of Arizona Summary: More than one billion acres of biotech crops have been grown in the US, but their ...

The Non-GMO Project claims that drought-tolerant crops won't help "feed the world" as climate change threatens crop yields. The evidence says otherwise. If you think biotech crops have some role to ...

The program profiles a grain farmer using no-till methods, a certified organic dairy farmer, a representative of the biotech food industry and a consumer about GMOs. Food Fight examines the broad ...

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service will conduct the June Agricultural Survey. The agency will contact nearly 92,000 producers across the nation to determine crop acreage and stock levels ...

With a rich agricultural legacy in palm oil, rubber and tropical fruits, the country’s failure to harness the power of biotech crops would be a missed opportunity. In his speech at the Malaysian ...