POLICY
Key seed companies agreed this past fall to a seed patent accord for biotech products that offers potentially big benefits to farmers of all major crops.
Expects challenges to Renewable Fuels Standard in the year ahead.
Ethanol usage for corn is more than double what we export, and that usage can be turned off as easily as a light switch.
Many questions surround the availability of trading funds from MF Global account holders.
Eliminating the ethanol mandate and tax credit would decrease ethanol production, says an Iowa State University economist .
Potential boost to corn markets could be derailed by partial EPA approval.
House Ag panel members unified in opposition
The authority has shifted back into the hands of the USDA and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service after a 7-1 Supreme Court ruling Monday on the case of Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms.
Supreme Court ruling could allow Roundup Ready Alfalfa planting in fall 2010