American farmers will plant more genetically engineered crops this year, including one-third of the corn on U.S. soil, shrugging off international resistance to biotech food. The farmers are expected ...

The growth of biotech crops in the U.S. appears to have hit a plateau, but farmers are accelerating plantings in Asia, although it still remains a much smaller market, according to an industry report ...

Good judgement and common sense prevailed when North Dakota lawmakers recently defeated a bill that would have required biotech seed developers to bear much of the liability relating to the planting ...

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

More miles to the bushel. That is the new mission of crop scientists. In an era of $3-a-gallon gasoline and growing concern about global warming from fossil fuels, seed and biotechnology companies see ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard its first case involving genetically modified crops and their potential environmental and health impacts — 14 years after the first biotech crop came to market.

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has granted approval for the testing of biotech, or genetically enhanced, crops on farmers’ fields, marking a significant milestone in the country’s ...

Ms Kaiser Jamil, an internationally renowned biotechnologist and president of the Third World Organization for Women in Science (http://twows.ictp.it/). 1 August 2009 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Biotech crops are flourishing in the United States, but they're also taking root across the globe, accounting for about $44 billion in crops in five leading countries, according to ...

Global biotech crop plantings surged 10 percent in 2010 to top the 1 billion hectare milestone, according to a report. As defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, biotech crops refer to ...

ELKTON, S.D. -- Some day in the not-too-distant future, European farmers will be planting biotech crops. Some already are planting insect-protected corn, and many more want to plant it and other ...