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* Glyphosate resistance has spread to kochia weed populations in Kansas with GM driven
glyphosate resistance in general estimated to be affecting nearly 11 million acres in the
US (Reuters,
26 February 2010)
* Pesticide applications on Bt Cotton in India are rising as new pests attack GM varieties
(Telegraph
(Calcutta) 16 February 2010)
* Scientists have voiced support for research which shows rising levels of pesticide
applications on GM crops in the United States (Nature
Biotechnology, February 2010)
* Although Bt crops in America helped reduce the use of insecticides in
cotton crops initially, in Mississippi spraying has begun rising again resulting in total
costs to farmers which are increasingly uneconomic (Delta Farm Press, 15
January 2010)
* A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that
the occurrence of glyphosate resistant weeds in America could threaten the sustainable use
of GM crop glyphosate herbicide-resistant technology (ABC, Australia, 12
January 2010)
* American scientists at the US Department of Agirculture have discovered
that the use of GM glyphosate resistant crops is stimulating detrimental pathogens in the
soil (The
Organic & Non-GMO Report, January 2010)
* Data shows Bt resistance is genetically modified corn and cotton crops is more
commonplace than many researchers are prepared to acknowledge (Arizona
Daily Star, 22 December 2009)
* Glyphosate herbicide resistance in weeds continues to spread in the United States and is
now occurring in Iowa (Kansas
Farmer, 18 December 2009)
* Monsanto's rising monopolistic position in seed markets is being reflected in the prices
it charges for seed (Associated
Press, 14 December 2009)
* Monsanto is continuing to build up monopolistic positions in the seed market (Associated Press, 14 December 2009)
* Modern conventional breeding techniques are proving more effective at developing plants
with high levels of nitrogen use efficiency than genetic engineering (Union
of Concerned Scientists, 9 December 2009):
* Contamination of rice crops in the United States with an
unapproved GM variety has lead to millions of dollars being paid out in compensation to
affected farmers by biotech company Bayer following a court ruling (Bloomberg, 4
December 2009)
* Herbicide resistant GM crops in
the United States are continuing to result in increased usage of herbicide compared to
non-GM systems (Reuters, 17
November 2009)
* The patents that attach to GM crops lie at the centre of how Monsanto has been accused
of building up monopoly positions in seed markets (Associated Press, 8 October
2009):
* In some GM crops glyphosate resistance has become so severe that
farmers are having to resort to manual weeding (ABC
News, 6 October 2009)
* The stacking of GM traits is leading to complications in the control of volunteer plants
and increasing risks of insect resistance (AgProfessional, September
2009)
* Consolidation in the seed market associated with the development of GM technology is
becoming an increasing problem for farmers in the United States (Olney
Daily Mail, 30 September 2009)
* Gylphosate resistant weeds have become such a problem in genetically
engineered crops that some farmers in the US are turning back to using residual herbicides
and even hoes, according Ford L. Baldwin of Practical Weed Consultants, LLC (Delta Farm Press, 20
August 2009)
* One of the reasons for the rapid uptake of GM crops is the lack of independent science
to give farmers impartial information on their actual performance, and some people are
finally beginning to notice (Financial
Times, Blog, 11 August 2009 - see also Scientific
American, Editorial, August 2009 edition, published 21 July 2009)
* Glyphosate resistant pigweed has been confirmed in 21 counties in
Arkansas since first confirmed in Mississipi County since 2005 (University of Arkansas, 10 August 2009)
* Restistance to glyphosate has become so prevelant in some parts of the United States
because of the introduction of genetically modified crops that some farmers are now
resorting to hand weeding and Monsanto are paying farmers to switch to other herbicides (Memphis
Commercial Appeal, 9 August 2009)
* For the first time since 2000 the share of the US soy crop taken by GM varieties has
fallen as the economic reasons for growing them weaken (The
Organic & Non-GMO Report July/August 2009)
* Glyphosate resistant weeds are spreading in Argentina with the growing of Roundup Ready
soya (Geoforum,
Vol. 40, No. 4. (July 2009), pp. 623-633)
* The use of glyphosate in 'Roundup Ready' crops has lead to 15 species of weed being
resistant to the herbicide with the problem especially accute in the US (Agweek
8 June 2009)
As costs associated with Roundup Ready
crops rise more farmers are looking to return to conventional cropping (WCPN, 28 May 2009)
Monsanto is suing rival
seed producer DuPont over what it sees as infringements of its patent right over the use
of Roundup Ready technology in an effort to maintain its dominant position in the US soya
market (Wall St Journal, 7 May 2009)
Glyphosate
resistant weed are starting to emerge in Argentina following the introduction of Roundup
Ready GM technology (ScienceDirect, 28 April 2009)
The
explosion in weeds resistant to the glyphosate herbicide is continuing to spread across
millions of acres in the United States causing some farmers to consider moving back to
non-GM crops (France 24, 19 April 2009)
A
study by the Union of Concerned Scientists has found that food and feed GM crops in the
United States have done little to improve crop yields with increases in production coming
from other plant breeding technologies (Bloomberg, 14 April 2009)
GM crops in
the United States are driving up the cost of seed in the United States despite increasing
husbandry problems such as weed resistance to glyphosate (Peoria Journal Star, Illinois, 6
April 2009)
Poor
GM performance leads farmers in Brazil's top soy state to start returning to non-GM soya
varieties, but concerns are growing that high performance non-GM lines may not be made
available by seed companies in the future (Reuters, 13 March 2009)
GM
canola in Canada has not increased yields and costs more, and contamination of non-gm
crops means that growing the latter is no longer possible (Weekly Times, Australia, 26
February 2009)
Even seed cleaning contractors in the US are now being punished by Monsanto for the
presence of GM seed in non-GM crops as GM contamination spreads (Weekly Times, Australia,
26 February 2009)
Ag-biotech
companies are obstructing independent university researchers from trialing GM crop
varieties in order to prevent the publication of data which shows their poor agronomic or
environmental performance (New York Times, 20 February 2009)
Genetically
modified herbicide-resistant genes from oil seed rape (canola) have be found to have
transfered to weeds in Canada which have then proved to be persistent (StarPhoenix, 19
February 2008)
The development
of glyphosate resistant weeds on US farms is encouraging the search for alterative to
Roundup Ready technology. Bayer's Liberty Link soybeans will require multiple applications
and/or use with other herbicides (Delta Farm Press, 13 February 2009)
More US
farmers are wanting to stop growing Roundup Ready soy bean because of the cost of GM seed,
the cost of glyphosate, and the arrival of glyphosate resistant weeds, but the
conventional seed isn't available (Delta Farm Press, 10 February 2009)
Glyphosate
resistance continues to be a problem for American cotton growers to the point where they
are having to consider other weed management programmes that do not rely on Roundup Ready
GM technology, including use of other herbicides and soil tillage (Delta Farm Press, 6
Feburary 2009)
Roundup Ready sugar beet has delivered a disappointing
performance in its first year of growing in the United States (Farmers Weekly, 6 February
2009)
As
glyphosate resistance increases in Roundup Ready soy bean crops more farmers are
considering returning to conventional beans and using residual herbicides as an
alternative to glyphosate (Delta Farm Press, 5 February 2009)
US Farmers who
have used Bt cotton varieties to control bollworms are finding that other pests are now
taking over to the point where some growers in Arkansas are giving up growing the crop
(Delta Farm Press, 2 February 2009)
US Bt cotton
acreage fell in 2008 and cost of Bt pest control proved greater than spray based methods
(Delta Farm Press, 23 January 2009)
LibertyLink
soybeans introduced to fight glyphosate resistant weeds in 19 US states, but new beans
treated with more than one type of herbicide (Delta Farm Press, 22 January 2009)
GM
canola (oilseed rape) has yielded less than non-GM canola in Australian field trials
(Australian Associated Press, 16 January 2009)
Second
generation GM cotton in Australia has been suffering from poor pest control in Australia
(Stock and Land, Australia, 15 January 2009)
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