Pharmaceutical giant, Bayer AG, has acquired global agricultural company, Monsanto, in a USD $66 billion deal. The acquisition has resulted in the world’s largest seller of farming chemicals and seeds. Both...

Less than four months after Monsanto’s board unanimously voted to reject the USD $62 billion acquisition bid by Bayer, the parties are again negotiating. Bayer earlier described its offer as a “mutually...

Agricultural giant Monsanto has rejected US $62 billion acquisition bid from pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer AG. Monsanto this week said its Board of Directors unanimously believed the proposal...

USDA opens investigation into second case of unauthorised genetically engineered wheat The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has opened a new investigation after a second case where unauthorised genetically...

Steve Marsh will appeal the WA Supreme Court decision about GM canola contamination Western Australian farmer Steve Marsh has decided to appeal a decision made against him in the Western Australian Supreme...

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has invite submissions on an application to change the Food Standards Code to allow food derived from genetically modified lucerne. FSANZ said it had assessed...

A referendum vote on a proposition (“Proposition 37”) to make labelling of genetically modified food compulsory was defeated this week with 53 per cent of Californians voting against GM labelling. The...

The United States Supreme Court will hear the appeal of an Indiana soybean farmer, ordered to pay $84,400 (US) to Monsanto for ‘infringing’ on the company’s ‘patented Roundup Ready soybeans.’...

A senior EU judge has said all food sold in the EU contaminated with even the slightest trace of genetically modified material must have a special regulatory approval. In a formal opinion on a case involving...

A West Australian organic farmer is in limbo, awaiting state government test results and facing genetic manipulation giant Monsanto’s legal wrath. Steve Marsh’s organic farm has been decertified...