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Monday, April 07, 2025
China says it is ready to join the plant biotechnology revolution, opening its fields to the widespread cultivation of genetically modified soybean and corn crops in an effort to bolster domestic production, but it’s unclear if the transformation will benefit U.S. exports.
Representatives of major pesticide and biotech seed companies gathered earlier this month in Mexico City to meet with Mexican ag groups and U.S. and Canadian government officials to flesh out concerns about the potential impacts of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s campaign against genetically modified corn and glyphosate, according to sources with knowledge of the meetings in Mexico.
President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Anna M. Gomez, Geoffrey Adam Starks, and Brendan Carr as commissioners to the Federal Communications Commission and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization has brought on John Torres as the director of federal government relations for agriculture and the environment.
U.S. and Mexican officials met behind closed doors last week to discuss Mexico’s ban on tortilla makers using genetically modified white corn, even as Mexico tries to publicly justify its action with claims that the grain is a threat to the country.
Companies that make biologically derived products designed to enhance soil and plant nutrition are backing a bill that would establish a definition and a regulatory pathway for those products.
Erick Lutt is now the director of federal government affairs for Bayer U.S., Crop Science based in Washington D.C., and new staffers are added to the House Agriculture Committee for both the Republican and Democratic staff.
A senior official says the Biden administration has received Mexico’s responses to U.S. demands for scientific justification of Mexico’s efforts to halt imports of genetically modified corn and the country’s rejection of approval applications for new biotech seed traits.
In this opinion piece, Beth Ellikidis of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization provides a blueprint for how to feed the growing planet amid climate change, increased frequency of drought and resource depletion.
Chinese officials have given their blessing to a handful of strains of alfalfa, canola and other crops, offering a sense of optimism that the wheels may be turning on the country’s notoriously slow approval process.
Beth Ellikidis has been tapped as the new vice president, agriculture and environment at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott makes several promotions on the majority agriculture staff.
