1. Environmental Working Group produces a GMO-free food guide. In a nutshell, it says, buy organic or verified GMO-free foods and steer away from food made with corn, soybeans, sugar and vegetable oils because most of the US supply comes from biotech crops.
2. Seed company Syngenta and grain handler Gavillon launch a “right to grow” pact for farmers who plant Syngenta’s Duracade corn variety, genetically engineered against cutworms. The variety is approved by US regulators but not all importing nations. Gavillon says it will buy Duracade corn at market prices and assure it stays in approved channels. China rejected a passle of US corn shipments in recent months because they included biotech corn not yet approved in that country.
But another big processor, ADM, like Cargill and Bunge, won’t accept Duracade corn, says a Reuters story. Plantings are projected less than 300,000 acres.