First, I would like to thank Matthew Dillon with the Organic Seed Alliance @Seed_Alliance for pulling me from under my rock and informing me about this very important case. Judge Sweet of the Southern District of New York invalidated seven
This past Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition of certiorari in order to hear the GE Alfalfa case, Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475, that has been causing quite a stir in the biotech world. This
I like to toss “seed lawsuit” in the google search bar on occasion to see what’s going on in the world-at-large beyond the comfortable confines of my office here in suburban Memphis, TN. I came across a story that I
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has sent out notice that it is extending the comment period for Pioneer Hi-Bred International’s high-oleic acid soybean petition for nonregulated status. The original petition that was posted to go with the initial
According to a Reuters article from last week, The Mexican Agriculture Ministry will issue two permits to grow experimental plots of GM corn in regions where there are no native corn varieties. This will put the “birthplace” of corn in
The Northern District of California handed down a ruling in Center for Food Safety v. Vilsack, No. C 08-00484 JSW (N.D. Cal September 21, 2009) that would requires the USDA to perform an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) as opposed to
A recent article out of the trade journal Nature Biotechnology, according to seedquest, states that the failure of certain genetically engineered traits to make it to market such as nutritional content, ripening control and processing attributes to reach consumers
