Items Tagged with 'bio'

Seventy lawmakers are calling for the Biden administration to force Mexico to abide by the biotech provisions laid out in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The U.S. needs to take enforcement action under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to address Mexico’s continued refusal to approve genetically modified crop traits and counter Mexico’s threat to ban GMO corn from the human food supply, Biotechnology Innovation Organization President and CEO Michelle McMurry-Heath told lawmakers Tuesday.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack ripped into lawsuits challenging debt relief for minority producers in remarks released Wednesday, asking what those who are challenging the payments did to address previous instances of discrimination the program is meant to address.

The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture and has tapped Gloria Montaño Greene as deputy undersecretary for farm production and conservation.

Matt Lohr announces he is stepping down as NRCS chief, and Dean Banks is the new chief executive of Tyson Foods.

David Hollinrake has been appointed to head of global seeds strategy and portfolio for Syngenta, and BIO tapped Michelle McMurry-Heath as the next president and CEO.

Anne Alonzo joins Corteva Agriscience and Susan Combs leaves the Department of Interior.

Dana O'Brien stresses the need for Congress and the White House to pass One Health strategies and modernize America’s animal biotechnology regulatory approach with everything going on with COVID-19; two policies that are long overdue.

Dana O’Brien is the executive vice president of food & agriculture at Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and in this piece he shares his thoughts on improving the regulatory system for animal biotechnology.