Non-GMO soybeans offer high yields at lower cost

Conventional, non-genetically modified soybean varieties are making a comeback. Lower seed and weed-control costs, price incentives at the grain elevator and yields that rival genetically modified Roundup Ready beans have renewed interest in conventional varieties, said Grover Shannon, an agronomist at the University of Missouri Delta Research Center in the Missouri Bootheel.
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Companies start enrolling products in non-GMO verification

The Non-GMO Project finalized its working standard for verifying natural and organic food products as non-GMO and has begun enrolling products in the verification process. Companies that have products enrolled in the non-GMO verification process include Whole Foods Market, which enrolled its “365” and other private label products.
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Japanese soy sauce manufacturers want US non-GMO soybeans

Japanese soy sauce manufacturers require a stable supply of non-genetically modified soybeans. That was a key message given by Osamu Kaneko, managing director of the Japan Federation of Soy Sauce Manufacturers (JFSSMC), who spoke at the Midwest Specialty Grains Conference in Minneapolis this past August.
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Groups say new GMO rules could allow drugs in food

Newly proposed US Department of Agriculture rules governing genetically engineered crops—including food crops engineered to produce pharmaceutical and industrial products—are too lax to protect consumerism says the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Center for Food Safety.
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