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Bad weather to blame for recent uptick in US honeybee loses

Bloomberg | 
Beekeepers in the U.S. reported an increase in honeybee deaths over the last year, possibly the result of erratic weather ...
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US honey bee population rose 3 percent in last year as colony collapse disorder concerns ease

Bloomberg | 
The number of U.S. honeybees, a critical component to agricultural production, rose in 2017 from a year earlier, and deaths ...
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‘Unstoppable’: How corn took over America’s farmland

Bloomberg | 
Farmers who had long rotated plantings among a diverse group of grains are increasingly turning to a single one. Corn ...
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President Obama ready to sign GMO labeling bill if passed by House

Bloomberg | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The White House plans ...

According to major seed companies, agriculture’s next boom may be in Africa

Bloomberg | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 48 countries that ...

Growing demand for organic corn forces US to import

Bloomberg | 
A growing demand for organics, and the near-total reliance by U.S. farmers on genetically modified corn and soybeans, is driving ...

Oregon organic farmers say cross-pollination could endanger their niche crops

Bloomberg | 
Twenty years after the first commercial varieties of genetically modified foods went on sale, farmers have embraced biotech crops that ...
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Monsanto sued over GM wheat, other suits likely to follow

Washington Post | 
Monsanto was sued in federal court in Wichita by a Kansas farmer who accused it of negligently releasing genetically altered ...
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