Tortilla-hungry Mexico setting rules on GMO corn
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Mexico, widely considered the  birthplace of corn, is close to finalizing rules governing  experimental planting of genetically modified corn strains, a  senior biosecurity official said on Tuesday.
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A farming co-op in the Netherlands has asked the ministry of agriculture to authorize the use of spicy tabasco sauce to protect their young crops from the insatiable appetites of hares, rabbits, crows and pigeons.
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US farmers given go-ahead to produce cloned meat for human food chain
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MEXICALI, Mexico  - Like other California vegetable growers, Larry Cox oversees hundreds of Mexican farm workers picking green onions, asparagus and cauliflower in the fertile Colorado River valley.
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A controversial genetically modified  rice strain found in commercial supplies last month should not  be approved by the U.S. Agriculture Department, which a  consumer group said on Thursday has failed to adequately  protect farmers and consumers.
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NOGALES, Mexico  - Slipping into the United States, eight-year-old Adrian Ramirez began a three-day trek across the cactus-studded wastes with just a small bag of tortillas and one large hope keeping him going.
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MISSION, Texas  - Driving through the Lower Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas, it is clear that whatever labor is being done on a farm -- be it driving a tractor or weeding a field -- Latinos are doing it.
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Sifting through the best that Mexico has to offer.
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Mexico said on Tuesday it had ordered supermarkets to withdraw carrot juice imported from the United States after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning linking four case of botulism to the product.
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With authorities promising tighter borders, some farmers who rely on immigrant labor are eyeing an emerging generation of fruit-picking robots and high-tech tractors to do everything from pluck premium wine grapes to clean and core lettuce.
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Two shipments of U.S. rice held in the  Netherlands and Belgium have tested positive for a strain of  unauthorized genetically modified (GMO) rice, the European  Commission said on Thursday.
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Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since the Depression. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
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Several influential EU states have dug  in their heels on whether their farmers may grow one of  Europe&#39;s oldest genetically modified (GMO) crops, raising the  stakes in the EU&#39;s long-running stalemate over biotech policy.
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U.S. scientists have determined a link between climate change and the origins of maize and squash cultivation in Mexico.
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The Christian Science Monitor - In rice-growing states, traces of an unapproved genetically modified (GM) rice have been found mixed in with conventional rice meant for human consumption.
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By Hernndez, Rufo Snchez; Chaparro, Vctor M Ordaz; Valdes, Gerardo Sergio Benedicto; Lpez, David J Palma; Boln, Judith Snchez  Wastes were collected (cocoa husk, sugarcane bagasse, sugarcane filter cake and bovine manure) in Tabasco State, Mxico.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico is keeping watch on US tests for a possible case of mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said Friday.