Non-GMO News

Analysts: Mexico’s GMO corn policy could expand premium non-GMO market for U.S. farmers

Mexico’s proposed restrictions on genetically engineered corn offer U.S. farmers premium opportunities to grow non-GMO corn, according to analysts who say U.S. overbearing trade policy to Mexico ignores potential benefits to those farmers. During a seminar in May hosted by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a Minneapolis-based think tank focused on sustainable food and […]

Premium prices are luring farmers to non-GMO soybean production

Sinner Brothers and Bresnahan supplies natto, soy milk, and tofu markets in Japan with Midwest-grown soybeans Non-GMO and organic soybean varieties are offering very attractive returns for Midwest growers, notes Scott Sinner of SB&B of North Dakota. The surge boasts the greatest returns he’s seen in two decades—food-grade soybean prices ranging from $2.75 a bushel […]

Benson Hill sees gains in non-GMO soybean breeding program

Benson Hill, Inc., an ag tech company aiming to unlock the natural genetic diversity of plants, has announced that recent advances in its soybean breeding program will drive the doubling of its seed portfolio by 2025. The latest field evaluations on Benson Hill’s third generation of Ultra High Protein Low Oligosaccharides, non-GMO soybean varieties showed protein […]

Benefits of non-GMO corn

By James J. Hoorman, Hoorman Soil Health Services Farmers are starting to buy seed for this year to get the early discounts. GMO corn and soybeans are popular in the United States. About 90-94% of soybean and 87-92% of corn in the USA are GMO. The USA produces 38% of all GMO crops in the […]

La Morenita is recipient in the Non-GMO Project’s Equitable Transfer Program

Napa, CA-based La Morenita is one of the first to be welcomed into the Non-GMO Project’s Equitable Transfer Program (ETP). Launched in March 2023, the initiative fosters equity and inclusion within the natural products industry by providing vital financial support to Black, Indigenous, multi-racial and people of color (BIMPOC)-led brands. EPT addresses challenges including finances, industry […]