Scotland’s Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead, announced that the government will opt out of European Union regulations on GMO crops, and impose a total ban on growing such crops in Scotland. This will include crops previously approved by the European Union. He said, “There is no evidence of significant demand for GM products by Scottish […]
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One of the most detailed and documented scientific studies of the link between herbicides and disease in wildlife and humans was published this week in an open-access professional journal, “Poultry, Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences.” The authors are Judy Hoy, Nancy Swanson and Stephanie Seneff. Swanson and Seneff have compiled in-depth demographics on links between herbicides
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Several years ago at a Farmland Foundation reception in Washington DC, I met an EPA official in charge of pesticide registration. He exuded confidence that his agency was protecting the U.S. public from toxins, while permitting scientific advances in crop protection. I asked, “Does EPA require toxicological studies of herbicide effects on soil organisms such
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August is here, and it’s the make or break month for grain fill and final yields. Will it be a month where we get average or cooler than average daily highs and lows along with rainfall in the precise amounts timed to crop usage? Or might it turn out below those expectations, leading to less than
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A new study of the epidemic of chronic kidney disease among farmers in Sri Lanka offers another suspected cause: Ten farmers with the disease tested positive for unusually high levels of glyphosate and heavy metals in their urine. This study, coupled with previous medical evidence, have led to a renewed government ban on glyphosate in Sri
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Last week we learned that one of our friends, Paul Syltie, was arranging a Midwest tour of Ukrainian farm managers interested in learning more about biologically sound technology for soybeans — so we offered to help. When the group of three managers flew out from Chicago to visit Iowa last Monday, we took them to
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A detailed feature by Elizabeth Grossman on the website civileats.com offers the best perspective we’ve seen on the “study vs. study” controversy over glyphosate residues in mothers’ breast milk. You’ve probably seen the report last week from Washington State University assistant professor Michelle McGuire stating that no detectable glyphosate was found in 41 samples of women’s
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The World Health Organization’s Agency for Research on Cancer has released its full report in which it classified glyphosate and its weedkiller formulation as a probable human carcinogen. You can download the entire report at this link as a PDF file. It is 92 pages long and loaded with technical data. So for starters we’d recommend
Bob Streit 515-709-0143 There are a few important things that must be addressed to produce the most bushels possible, where a good portion of the profits might be contained. It has been a somewhat eventful summer. One event that many poultry farmers will never forget was that they got blasted by a disease that
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A federal legislative effort to block retail labeling of GMO foods is heading for a vote in the U.S. House of Representative this week, probably Thursday. It would pre-empt any state’s right to require such labeling — as Vermont has already done, and which several state referendums have attempted to require. A Wall Street Journal
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