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Glyphosate weed resistance in the US now includes ryegrass (Delta Farm Press, 30 October 2008)
Monsanto has expensive seed monopoly (Des Moines Register, 17 October 2008)
Weed resistance to glyphosate is spreading in GM cotton crops in South Carolina and in Georgia some farms are even being abandoned (The Times and Democrat (South Carolina), 11 August 2008)
Glyphosate resistant horesweed continues to spread in Roundup Ready crops in the United States (Delta Farm Press, 13 August 2008)
Conventional soybean varieties are making a comeback in Missouri as GM crop costs rise (University of Missouri, 9 August 2008)
Concerns have been growing about the social and environmental effects of growing GM soya in Argentina including the rising of weed resistant to glyphosate (IPS, 29 July 2008)
The Weed Science Scociety of America has issued a warning about the growing problem of glyphosate resistant weeds in the US (Farm Press, 5 June 2008)
Syngenta are trying to help us farmers deal with the growing problem of glyphosate resistant weeds, but there is no 'silver bullet' solution in the offing (Farm Delta Press, 30 May 2008)
GM crops are requiring more applications of Roundup (Delta Farm Press, 19 March 2008)
Glyphosate resistant weeds are becoming a major problem in Arkansas (Delta Farm Press, 13 March 2008)
Secondary insect pests are making inroads into Bt Cotton crops (Farm Press, 10 March 2008)
Indications of insect resitance to Bt in cotton crops appears to be emerging in the United States (The Hindu Business Line, 21 Feb 2008)
GM crops have become closely associated with unsustainable monocroping systems and herbicide resistant weeds (Delta Farm Press, 12 February 2008)
Non-GM Cotton Just As Or More Profitable As GM (American Society of Agronomy, 11 February 2008)
Insects are beginning to develop resistance to Bt technology in the US (Farmers Guardian, 11 February 2008)
Contamination, Husbandry, and Market problems with GM canola (oil seed rape) in Canada (Canberra Times, 5 February 2008)
Lack of rotation in GM crops giving rise to management problems (Delta Farm Press, 25 January 2008)
High uptake of GM crops in the United States is bringing its own weed and pest problems, Farmers Weekly 30 October 2007
GM herbicide resistant corn is causing volunteer control problems in follow-on GM crops (Farm Delta Press, 12 October 2007)
GM herbicide resistant crops need to be used with pre-crop emergence residuals to preserve yield (Delta Farm Press, 28 September 2007)
GM herbicide resistant crops are requiring more applications of Roundup (glyphosate) than originally expected (Delta Farm Press, 17 August 2007)
Bt GM technology is proving ineffective in control root worms in the US, The News-Gazette 13 July 2007
Glyphosate resistant GM cotton volunteers are complicating pest and disease management in Australia, FarmOnline April 2007
Glyphosate resistant weed problems emerge for GM soya growers in Brazil, Rural TV, Brazil, 14 January.2007
Glyphosate resistant pigweed spreads in US GM crops, Farm Press, 27 September 2006
Two glyphosate-resistant weeds associated with GM soya reported in Argentian and Brazil, Agrenco News, August 28, 2006
Growth of secondary pests erode benefits of GM Bt cotton in China, Cornell University, July 22-26, 2006
Weed resistance to Roundup continues to spread following the introduction of GM Roundup-Ready cotton crops - Associated Press, 8 July 2006
Problems persist with inadequately tested Bt Cotton varieties in India - Financial Express, India, 5 June 2006
India Government Admits Bt Cotton Crop Failures - The Times of India, 1 December 2005
Inferior grain yields from Bt maize - Field Crops Research 93: 199-21, September 14, 2005
Seed yields are down from US GM cotton varieties - Delta Farm Press 18 August 2005
Indian state bans Bt cotton following poor agronomic performance - India News, May 2005
Brazil - GM soya yields hit hard in drought conditions compared to conventional varieties - IPS April 2005
GM specialist increases technology fees in USA - Farmers Weekly, February 2005
GM weedkiller use increases - Farmers Weekly, October 2004
US Hits Volunteer RR Corn Problem - Farmers Weekly, September 2004
Problems with GM Bt cotton in China - Reuters June 2004
GM Cotton Damages Environment In China - Xinhuanet report - June 2004
Argentina's bitter GM harvest, New Scientist 17 April 2004
USDA data shows GM crops generally do not reduce pesticide use
Crop failure and major   husbandry problems with Monsanto's Bt cotton in India
What Ag-Biotech Scientists Don't Usually Talk About In Public "Tearing Down Biotech's 'Berlin Wall' "
GLYPHOSATE-RESISTANT WATERHEMP MOVES INTO THE CORN BELT
'Glyphosate resistance dominates weed science meetings'
Syngenta web site on GM crop resistance problems - click here
Science V 'PR Offensive' - UK GM Debate
UK arms-for-agriculture deal as GM debate sham exposed
GM crops under fire after Bt cotton venture fails in India
GM plants no panacea - Monsanto Admits to Bt crop problems - New Scientist Report
The Acceptable Face Of Ag-biotech
USDA Report Exposes GM Crop Economic Myths
Australia farmers want postponement of GM canola
UK Farming Establishment Knowingly Supports Unscientific GM Trials
America's Looming Food Crisis
GMOs - Does the British Prime Minister Know What He is Talking About?
More GM Smokescreen Journalism?
Health Statistics - Lies, Damn Lies, and GM foods?
Farmers told GM crops are 'too dangerous to insure'
'Welsh Farmer' - Flaws in GM crop trials
Genetic modification accused of damaging cotton quality
New report questions whether planting Bt corn worth the cost
Problems with Canola GE volunteers getting worse each year
Quantum bio-physics in living organisms - Dec 2001
Canadian NFU seeks GM pollution liability justice
Disease hits RR soy - Court awards large damages
Roundup Ready corn in the US has lead to an increase in herbicide usage on corn (maize) crops
Canadian 'U-turn' Exposes Poor GM Safety Testing in US
GM fields spread new superweeds - Sunday Times
Australian farmers advised to spray where Bt Cotton fails to control target pest
European Commission lacks confidence in own GM safety tests - More Details
Storm Clouds from Food Warlords gather over UK Agriculture
The antidote - 'Enlightened Agriculture'
Disease and pestlience hits Missouri as GM soy expands
Monsanto gears up for special chemical mixtures against GM 'superweeds'
Insecticides Still Used Despite Biotech
Can Organic Agriculture Feed the World?
Letter to Director General of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation - June 2001
GM oilseed rape in Canada 'impossible to control' - CBC News report
Warning over dangers of animal cloning
Bt cotton fails in Indonesia
Population duped by genetic engineers
Study Questions Widespread Use of Bt Corn
'Magic bean' transforms agriculture in Central America
'Big money and small genes are changing the structure of agriculture - and your place in it' - Farm Journal
Canadian Court backs farming totalitarianism
US CORN GROWERS CHALLENGE LOGIC OF PROMOTING BIOTECHNOLOGY IN FOREIGN MARKETS
Solar Energy, Agriculture and World Peace
DNA Markers Streamline Texas Rice Breeding
Database of scientists ties to industry
Tagging New Leaf Rust Resistance Genes in Wheat
Wheat May Become Resistant To Diseases, Pests With Its Own Genome
The Implications of the Percy Schmeiser Decision by E. Ann Clark, Ph.D
US Refiners Shun Bioengineered Sugar Beets
ISU Weed Science Online - Are RR weeds in your future?
Horizontal Gene Transfer - DNA in the Soil
"Herbicide Impact on Fusarium spp. and Soybean Cyst Nematode in Glyphosate-Tolerant Soybean"
Soya study casts doubt on GM decision making process
Integrated Pest Management pays off as GM hits problems- Cotton World
Soya realities expose GM hype - yields down, pesticides up
General Election 2001 - Can Prescott stop GM pollution?
Bio-terrorism and the Gill rDNA trajectory
Monsanto 'MAB' progress reinforces positive FAO world food forecast
GM rape heading for agronomic scrap heap?
UK farmers being led to US-style GM slavery
UK Dairy Farmers Don't Need US Soy Anymore
Pupae problems hit Bt cotton in Australia
Cross-Pollination Leads to Triple Herbicide Resistance ISB News Report
EU farmers liable for GM damage
NFU Mutual won't insure GM crop trial risks
Purdue professors downplay importance of transgenics to Indiana farmers
US NFU calls for GM Wheat moratorium
Canadian Wheat Board wants GM wheat banned before its introduction to protect markets
Mississippi farmer fights for the right to save seed - Cropchoice report
Canadian farmer forced to pay for biotech company pollution
Bt corn not economic in Indiana
Syngenta Stops GE Sugar Trials in Europe
GM Potatoes Alter Soil Ecology
Pollen flow between herbicide tolerant canola (Brassica napus)  is the cause of multiple resistant canola volunteers WSSA Abstracts, 2000 Meeting of the Weed Society of America, Volume 40, 2000
GM soya ban good for UK
Roundup hits resistant weeds in US
Monsanto sues Nelson farm: A North Dakota family's frustrations with genetically engineered soybeans
US data reveals UK GM trials unscientific
GE fantasy shattered by human genome project - Feb 2001
Bogus claims for 'golden' Vitamin A GM rice - Greenpeace briefing
'An ordinary miracle' - sustainable agriculture without GMOs - New Scientist - Feb 2001
Early resistance of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) to Bacillus thuringiensis and its relation to the effect of transgenic cotton lines expressing BT toxin on the insect
Development and characterization of diamondback moth resistance to transgenic broccoli expressing high levels of Cry1C
Illinois Asks Dealers Not to Sell Controversial Monsanto Corn Seed
'An ordinary miracle' - sustainable agriculture without GMOs - New Scientist - Feb 2001
Global rejection on Roundup Ready wheat as North Dakota and Montana consider moratorium
Export markets pointin' thumbs down on biotech corn
Farmers, foreign markets send negative signals about Roundup Ready wheat
New US corn viruses - is GM the prime suspect?
GM cotton growers hitting fibre quality problems?
Bt cotton strain loses resistance to other pest - Journal of Cotton Science
Glyphosate treated GM soy regime impact on soil micro-organisms
Above study abstract
Missouri Soybean Farmer Online - RR soy beans susceptible to Sudden Death Syndrome
University of Missouri - Roundup Ready Soybeans, fusarium and ' Sudden Death Syndrome'
Canadian NFU calls for GM food ban
Is Genetic Engineering Worth the Cost? - Ann Clarke, University of Guelph
National Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Starlink Producer
Who is going to pay the externalized costs of GMOs?
Is Genetic Engineering Worth the Cost? - Progressive Farmer
Lethal effects of bt corn on Monarch Butterfly
Macdonalds dumps GM animal feed for its meat products
StarLink fiasco wreaks havoc in the heartland
Tyson stops buying StarLink gene-altered corn
Effect of RR soy regime on nitrogen fixation
Non Genetic Canola Trade Advantage
"Weed Shift Worries" - GM farmers trade one weed problem for another - "Progressive Farmer" article
How much do we actually need GMOs? - Meeting of the Association of Formulation Chemists, Orlando, Sept 2000
GM Rape Changes Character - Gene Silencing - herbicide resistance lost:
Australia cashes in on non-gm canola market - see third item
Dorset GM Trial Crop triggers Government Challenge
FAO report reveals GM crops not needed to feed the world
Bt cotton pest resistance problems
General Agronomic Problems With GM Cotton
Low Yields from RR soya - Nebraska University Study - Comments by NLP Wessex
GM Weed Shift Worries - Progressive Farmer, June 12, 2000
Transgenic Oilseed Rape line unexpectedly increases growth of crop pest
Schmeiser v Monsanto Canola pollution case - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
NLP Environment Spokesman to speak at Royal Agricultural College - June 2000
Low yields from GM soya - University of Nebraska
Risks associated with Genetically Modified (GM) Baculovirus Vectors to Control Insect Pests
Purdue University on GM contaminaiton - Protect Corn Crop Value by Protecting Crop Identity
New Scientist on RR cotton volunteers problem
Sugar beet study exposes media manipulation by GM industry
Suppression of dissent in science - Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol 7
Back to Back Roundup Ready Threatens Boll Weevil Control
UK farmers go GM-free with new crops as US makes huge market blunder
US farmers raise GM legal, marketing and production questions
GM firm faked test figures - herbicide resistant maize
Corrupt Science-Business interface - 'Lancet'
Big Isle virus resistant papaya crops tainted
GM Rape fails to perform as study reveals erroneous basis for UK fieldscale trials
Bt GM Cotton less profitable than conventional Cotton as 'stink bugs' hit back
First multiple HT GM gene-flow discovered in UK OSR trials
EU Farmers to be liable for GM food claims
Farmers can't get GM risk insurance cover
EPA Restricts Planting of Biotech Corn
Scientists 'asked to fix results for backer' - Daily Telegraph
Risks associated with virus resistant transgenic plants as identified by Monsanto and USDA
Fundamental scientific conceptual errors in the development of recombinant DNA technology
GENETIC ENGINEERING DOES NOT YIELD PESTICIDE REDUCTION - WWF report
NLP OECD GM risks briefing paper
The solution to the GM debate?
Herbicide tolerant oilseed rape varieites hit major management problems in Canada
NLP commentary on University of Kentucky Study showing no yield or cost benefits from Roundup Ready Corn
US Government deception about GMOs exposed - Feb 2000
Political compliance V sound science - transgenic risks
Aventis CropScience (AgrEvo) - the company dominating the UK GM crops scene - 'CorporateWatch'
Special risks with field scale environmental releases of GMOs
No yield or cost benefits from Roundup Ready Corn - University of Kentucky Study
(Full RR corn Kentucky report - pdf format - click here)
GM crops not needed for sustainable industrial products
Dismantling the myth of genetics as the principal constraint on responsible global agricultural production
Misinformed US farmers buy Bt corn seed
Canadian farming rebellion against GM oilseed rape - Financial Times
Novartis GM Bt maize needs additional pesticides
Insecticide from GM corn seeps into soil - study
Monsanto GM soya defective in hot conditions - (see last item)
The international market for genetically-modified crops is collapsing
US livestock won't eat GM crops
U.S. grain merchants paying up for non-GMO crops
US farmers take out record law suit against biotech companies
Corn Growers Association advises US growers to consider abandoning GM varieties in 2000 (see second item)
Viral danger from GM crops confirmed - John Innes Study details
US farmers' resentment against biotechnology industry
Tide begins to turn in US against GM crops

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