A widely-referenced paper on the trials and effects of biotech food crops has been discredited by the journal that published it. There is now no serious scientific evidence of any harm to human health, leaving the possibility of India's Supreme Court ruling in favor of GM crops. India's GM Controversy May End A paper on the trials and effects of biotech food crops by Dr. Seralini and colleagues from the University of Caen, France was published October 2012 in a journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology. It linked the increased tumors in rats and their deaths to the biotech corn they were fed. The study was criticized at the time and has now been rejected by the same publication that printed the controversial paper through a statement that ind...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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