GMO

Aug 14, 2017
Who owns the seeds bought by farmers and gardeners?
Eilis O'Neill/ for Marketplace
As companies like Monsanto and DuPont gain patent rights to seeds, one group of plant breeders is trying to create an alternate open access seed market.
Aug 11, 2017
Food is at the center of US-UK trade concerns
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The big fear is that America will flood the market with cheap produce.
Apr 5, 2017
China slows GMO crop exports from U.S.
Regulators in China are slowing the pace of approving genetically modified crop varieties grown by U.S. producers. Those are crops engineered to resist things like bugs and weedkillers. China is the largest export market for genetically modified soybeans from the U.S, and folks with ties to U.S. agriculture are worried the slower pace of approvals […]
Oct 4, 2016
Jack and the non-GMO beanstalk
Annie Baxter/Marketplace
The path to market for non-GMO soybeans is complex.
Aug 11, 2016
After decades of wariness, China to grow GMOs
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The country will push to commercialize genetically modified corn and soybeans.
Aug 9, 2016
Why sugar beet farmers are all in on GMOs
Annie Baxter/Marketplace
If consumers turn against GMO crops, however, farmers know they'll have to adapt
May 27, 2016
Long and Short: Credit, GMOs, millennial housing and Captain America
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Marketplace’s Jed Kim and The Atlantic’s Gillian White talk about their best bets of the week.
May 12, 2016
Target wants to know how you think about groceries
Jeffrey Thompson
Target is testing how shoppers respond to information about foods' origins and freshness.
Apr 13, 2016
GMO acreage falls — along with commodity prices
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For crops where GMO seeds are big, they're 90 percent of the market
Mar 24, 2016
Reluctantly, more major food brands take up GMO labeling
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A Vermont law becomes a defacto federal requirement.