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USDA projects record 2023 corn yield Posttime: 2024-01-16: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released its Crop Production 2023 Summary report. This annual report contains crop production data for the past year for grains and oilseeds, sugar crops, cotton, tobacco, and others. Information on area planted and harvested, yield, and production is provided by type of crop, as well as the planted and ...

Argentina pushes to get out of farming time warp with better GMO seeds Posttime: 2024-01-08: Argentina is seeking to make its decades-old rules governing patented seed technology fit for the modern era, a move that would allow it to compete with agriculture powerhouse rivals Brazil and the US. As part of new President Javier Mileis sweeping reforms to liberalize the economy, seed companies including Syngenta Group Co. Ltd., Corteva Inc. and Bayer AG...

European Union - Agriculture ministers reject compromise over GM crop regulation reform Posttime: 2023-12-28: The EU Council has rejected a Spanish bid to forge a joint position on a proposed deregulation of genetically modified (GM) crops produced using new genomic techniques (NGTs), with governments voicing concerns over safety, labelling and social acceptance. The European Commission proposed in July a reform to regulations that, following a 2018 ruling by the EU...

China’s 2023 grain production reaches new high, with total output increasing by 1.3% Posttime: 2023-12-28: The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics announced the grain production data in 2023 on December 11. According to the survey of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country, Chinas total grain sowing area, per-unit output, and total output in 2023 were as follows: The sown area of grain in the country was 118.969 million hectares,...

China corn breeders ready for doubling of GMO planting in 2024 -sources Posttime: 2023-12-25: Chinese corn breeders are preparing for the planting of more than double the amount of genetically modified corn next year than in 2023, three industry sources said, with Beijing expected to tightly control for a second year the rollout of GMOs. GMO corn will be allowed on around 10 million mu, or about 670,000 hectares (1.66 million acres), in eight provinc...

Law passed to modernize agrochemical registration in Brazil Posttime: 2023-11-29: The Brazilian Senate approved a bill on November 28 that modernizes the rules for approval, registration, and commercialization of agrochemicals. Bill 1,459/2022 has long been a demand from the agribusiness sector and now awaits the approval of the Brazilian president to take effect. The change aims to simplify and expedite the evaluation of new pesticides, ...

Brazil has new rules for pesticide registration Posttime: 2023-11-23: The Brazilian government has published two new regulations that establish new rules for the registration of agricultural pesticides. The regulations are signed by the three entities responsible for the approval of technologies: the Ministry of Agriculture, Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency), and Ibama (Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Ren...

EU to renew herbicide glyphosate approval for 10 years Posttime: 2023-11-17: The European Union will extend glyphosates authorisation for 10 years, even though its member states failed to agree over the active ingredient in Bayer AGs Roundup weedkiller. Glyphosate has proved divisive since the World Health Organizations cancer research agency concluded in 2015 that it was probably carcinogenic to humans. Other agencies around the wor...