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The little guys win some gold from Goliath. From AP News:
A federal court jury has ordered the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience to pay $1.5 million to farmers in Arkansas and Mississippi whose rice seed was contaminated with a genetically altered strain.
Friday's verdict was the second against Bayer CropScience for losses sustained by farmers when an experimental variety of rice that the company was testing infiltrated crops. Read more...
I love archaeology and anthropology, and I love reading about agriculture (yeah, I'm a fun date), so this article should have "Dear El Dragón," written at the top:
Gene analysis shows male farmers spread across Europe
In a PloS Biology study released Tuesday and led by geneticist Patricia Balaresque of England's University of Leicester, researchers examined modern European men's genes to see how the continent was settled. Read more...
The US dairy crisis is the worst we've seen in several generations, and, as you might expect in a global economy, European dairy farmers are in exactly the same boat as American dairiers. A milk glut, a corporate-slanted subsidy system, and steady dissolution of government oversight have milk prices sinking to unsustainable lows: Prices across Europe have dropped by 40% well below the cost of production, according to the European Milk Board. Read more...
