Field trials could be underestimating the potential for cross-pollination between genetically modified and conventional crops, according to researchers from the University of Exeter. advertisement The findings showed huge variation in the amount of cross-pollination between GM and non-GM crops of maize, oilseed rape, rice and sugar beet. The team used records of wind speed and direction across Europe to predict the movement of pollen in the air. GM and non-GM crops too close, study says....

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James Randerson, science correspondent Thursday June 7, 2007 Guardian Unlimited Genetically modified cotton and maize with a built-in insecticide is better for the environment than conventional crops sprayed with insecticide, according to research that pulled together data from 42 different studies conducted across the world. James Randerson, science correspondent Thursday June 7, 2007 Guardian Unlimited Genetically modified cotton and maize with a built-in insecticide is better for the...

He takes orders and produces the product his market has purchased. Vanderweele obtained a degree in agriculture while in Holland, where he studied crop sciences, basic physics, chemistry, social structures and economics. Vanderweele started a carrot cutting and peeling operation in 2002, building a state-of-the-art facility for production and storage of baby peeled carrots. They have now been farming for 15 years, successfully transporting product 52 weeks a year. There have also been...

Cane sugar has a huge advantage, he says, over rival crops, such as corn and sugar beet, citing studies that indicate the energy gain from producing ethanol from sugar cane is a multiple of 8. The chief executive of Infinity Bioenergy points to a map of Brazil and sweeps his hand over the areas of sugar cane cultivation in the southeast of the country. Ethanol production from sugar cane is highly efficient, Mr Thompson-Flores says, because a waste material, known as bagasse, accounts for a...