30/March/20

 

The US agriculture giant Monsanto and the German chemical giant BASF were aware for years that their plan to introduce a new GMO seed and chemical system would probably lead to damage on many US farms, internal documents show. Risks were downplayed even while they planned how to profit off farmers who would buy Monsanto’s new GMO dicamba-tolerant seeds just to avoid dicamba herbicide drift damage, according to documents unearthed during a recent successful $265m lawsuit brought against both firms by a Missouri farmer. The documents, some of which date back more than a decade, also reveal how Monsanto opposed some third-party product testing in order to curtail the generation of data that might have worried regulators. The Guardian

 

 

GM canola in Western Australia suffers a price penalty of 7.2% compared with non-GM canola, based on the past five years of price data from two Western Australia receival depots. This is the main finding of a peer-reviewed paper published in 2019 in the Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR). GMWatch