For Immediate Release: January 27, 2011 Contact: Kristina Hubbard, Director of Advocacy, (406) 493-6965, kristina@seedalliance.org USDA …
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NPR: A Tale of Two Seed Farmers
NPR recently visited Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed about the GE sugar beet case. "This valley is not big enough to have genetically …
Tell USDA to Protect Organic Integrity, Beginning with Alfalfa
As we wrote last month, USDA has completed its environmental impact statement for GE alfalfa and is poised to approve ("deregulate") its …
Charting a Course for Seed Self-Determination
This article is featured in the Organic Farming Research Foundation's Winter 2011 Issue Bulletin. Photo credit: Judy Owsowitz In 2005, …
OFRF Issue Bulletin: “Forging a Path to An Organic Seed Future”
The following article is featured in the Organic Farming Research Foundation's Winter 2011 Issue Bulletin. The day after the State of …
Lobbying Dollars Flow from Patent Holders
Food and Water Watch recently released a report that measured the breadth of agricultural biotechnology lobbying dollars flowing into …
USDA Plans to Release First GE Perennial Field Crop
USDA has released the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Roundup Ready alfalfa with two preferred options for moving forward: 1) …
The Problem of Contamination: Sugar Beet Update
The problem of contamination by genetically engineered (GE) seeds and crops received a lot of attention in 2010 thanks to court decisions …
DOJ Workshops Conclude in DC Without Seed Discussion
Tomorrow, the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Agriculture (USDA) conclude a year-long listening tour focused on competition concerns in …
DOJ Seeks Justice for … Monsanto?
Bloomberg reports that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) wants to appeal this week's court order requiring the destruction of GE sugar …
Federal Court Orders Destruction of GE Sugar Beet Crop
Organic Seed Alliance enjoyed a big victory in August when Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, …
U.S. Finally Talking About Patent Reform
The New York Times headline this past weekend seemed too good to be true: "U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents." In a …
