Pea-shooting at Biotech The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) report that biotech crop acres expanded 8 percent in 2011 prompted the technologies' opponents to launch attacks ranging from the charge of double counting to a repetition of the usual blather. Greenpeace said only a small amount of Europe's land is planted to GM and that "only Spain marginally [emphasis added] increased its acreage grown [to GM] in 2011." ISAAA reports that the planting of MON810 maize in Europe rose by over 25 percent last year.The last time we heard from Doug Gurian-Sherman of the Union of Concerned Scientists he was issuing the earth-shattering complaint that drought-resistant corn would only be helpful when a...
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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