News Updates GM FOOD AND TURKEY With the Turkish government's recent approval of 13 GM corn types and three GM soybean types, there has been huge anti-GMO activity in the country. A senior trade executive in the country exemplified the lack of understanding regarding GMO, stating that "if GMOs [in the EU] constitute less than 1 percent of a food product, they are not considered to be damaging to people's health." That is certainly an interesting, if ill-informed, bit of information. The head of a major corporation in Turkey says the company's position on GMO is that it "should be banned, not limited."According to headlines in the Turkish news, the food industry is "risking future generations for the sake of profits." That looks to be abou...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
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