MINNEAPOLIS— On Sept. 19, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted to approve final guidance to commodity exchanges planning to offer new derivatives contracts whose underlying assets are ...

The world’s leaders meet early next week at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York to adopt the Pact for the ...

You can’t make hay unless the sun is shining. If the Farm Bill is hay, and the sunshine is time left in Congress’s schedule, ...

MONSANTO AND OTHER GENE GIANTS ARE TRYING TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE WORLD AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY, INCLUDING P.E.I.'S, CITY MEETING TOLD. Tony Clarke, vice-chair of the Council of Canadians, was cited as ...

March 17, 1999 / By Joe Cummins, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University of Western Ontario, e-mail: [email protected] Canada has approved genetically engineered canola patented by the ...

At the heart of central Africa's great rainforests lies Kisangani, a small city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) some 1,300 miles from the mouth of the Congo River. The town began as a ...

Despite its importance to forest productivity and the regional economy, relatively little is known about the logging sector. This study provides a picture ofthe logging sector and the hurdles facing ...

Michael Andreas, 49, on leave as executive vice president of ADM; Terrance Wilson, 60, retired head of ADM's corn-processing unit; and former ADM biochemist Mark Whitacre, 41 have been convicted by a ...

The Ojibwe tribal members here are paddling into the rice beds again this fall and harvesting wild rice, knocking it in traditional fashion from bending stalks into the bottoms of their canoes. It is ...

WELLINGTON, April 6 (AFP) -- A small New Zealand political party Tuesday exposed a fish farm company developing genetically engineered salmon which grow faster and bigger than other salmon. But the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 23 (Reuters) - Farmland Industries said on Thursday it plans to sell its Dubuque, Iowa, pork processing plant to Smithfield Foods Inc. , the largest U.S. pork producer. The all ...