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Recent Posts
- Alternative and Post-Development Discourses Influence the Political and Social Environment for the Seed Industry
- Bowman v. Monsanto Part III: Patent Exhaustion and Seed Production Using Grain Including Patented Innovations
- Alternative and Participatory Development are Problematic for Seed Business
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a comprehensive joint scientific report on honey bee health on May 2, 2013
- EU Commission Bans 3 Neonicotinoid Seed-Applied Insecticides for 2 Years
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- Paul Christensen on Bowman v Monsanto: Part 2
- Paul Christensen on Relationship between Chinese Economic Policy and Global Seed Demand
- Paul Christensen on Bee Colony Collapse and Neonicotinoid Seed Applied Insecticides
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AgriSol and the Seed Industry
News over the last year in the U.S. Midwest has been critical of Pioneer and Iowa State University for their involvement in a land development project in Tanzania. The project is organized by an Iowa Corporation called AgriSol, with … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Locations
Tagged activism, Africa, Agricultural biotechnology, agricultural development, Agrisol, biotechnology, conflict, development, globalization, Hutu refugees, Iowa State University, Oakland Institute, Paul Christensen, public relations, Seed, seed industry, Tanzania, technology
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Evolution: A Life in Seed
You have imaginations. See if you can make this sequence into a story about management in the Seed Business. Disruptive Innovation means that you cannot always rely on customers to guide innovation Delegation in the Seed Business is influenced … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged Business, Corporate, disruptive innovation, innovation, management, Morality, Paul Christensen, Perfomance, postmodernism, Seed, seed industry
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Insect Resistance to BT Proteins in Monsanto’s Corn Rootworm Resistant Traits
Western Corn Rootworm Adult. Image from Agweb.com New Seed Environmental Controversy Involving Corn Rootworm Resistance In March of this year, 22 members of NCCC46 and affiliates sent a letter to the EPA on emerging challenges in the management of resistance … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, World Views
Tagged Bt, corn, Corn Rootworm, Cry3Bb1, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Insect Resistance Management, Integrated pest management, IPM, Mon863, Mon88017, Monsanto, NCCC46, Paul Christensen, Pioneer, Refuge-in-a-bag, Regulation, RIB, rootworm resistance, Seed, SmartStax, Syngenta, YieldGard Rootworm. Reduced Refuge
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More News on Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments
The neonicotinoid insecticides which the seed industry uses in high value seed treatments have been in the news again lately. They have been the target of activism to aimed at getting additional restrictions on their use as seed treatments and they … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged agricultural biotech, Bayer, bees, biotechnology, clothianidin, Colony Collapse Disorder, Cruiser, environment, EPA, Gaucho, honey bees, imidacloprid, neonicotinoid, Paul Christensen, Poncho, registration, seed applied insecticide, seed industry, Seed treatment, systemic, thiamethoxam
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Polarization of Seed Related Issues
Cass Sunstein A quick trip to the Wikipedia for Cass R. Sunstein will get you this introductory biography: Cass Robert Sunstein[1] (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental … Continue reading
Pollan Rejects Trust in Food Science, On Which Seed Biotechnology Depends
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Michael Pollan Publisher: Penguin Press, 2008 ISBN-10: 1594201455 ISBN-13: 978-1594201455 Seed Industry and Doubts about Food Science Although In Defense of Food by Michael Pollen 1 is something of a dagger in … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Business, food, food science, In Defense of Food, industrial agriculture, modern, nutrition, Organic, Paul Christensen, Pollan, Regulation, safety, Seed, seed industry, Western diet
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USDA Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture: Locomotives, Lighthouses, Limited Government and the American Seed Trade Association
The American Seed Trade Association says that the Seed Industry has little to gain in furthering the discussion of liability-based discussion of GM crop coexistence At the February meeting of the Iowa Seed Association this year, Mike Gumina, 2011/12 … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Regulatory
Tagged 21st Century Agriculture, AC21, Agricultural biotechnology, American Seed Trade Association, ASTA, Biotech, biotech trait, biotechnology, Business, coexistence, diversity, GMO, industry, Liability, Organic, Paul Christensen, Public Good, public interest, Seed, transaction costs, USDA
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Mexican Elections, the Business Cycle and Seed
Recently there was an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Mexican Peso with the subtitle: Elections in Mexico usually are a reason to sell the peso. The point of the article was that during the current election the Peso … Continue reading
Posted in Locations
Tagged Business cycle, discretion, Friedman, governnment, intervention, Mexico, Paul Christensen, seed business, seed companies, Taylor
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A Unity of GMO Opposition?
This article is experimental. I am uncertain of its usefulness in the seed business, but I want to try out the concept. This is an article for which I would really like to get some feedback. This article is terribly abstract. Its abstractness … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, World Views
Tagged Agricultural biotechnology, biotechnology, Center for Food Safety, Cultural Relativism, GMO, GMO opposition, Jeremy Rifkin, Neo-Luddites, opposition, Paul Christensen, scientific realism, Seed, seed business
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European Council of Ministers Rejects a Proposal to Institutionalize National Bans on GMOs
European acceptance of agricultural biotechnology is tremendously important to the seed industry, not only because of the value of the potential European market for biotech traits for the seed industry, but also because of the influence which Europe has on … Continue reading
Posted in Locations, Regulatory
Tagged activist, Agricultural biotechnology, biosafety, Danish proposal, Denmark, ESFA, EU Council, Europe, European Commission, European Food Safety Authority, European Union, food, GMO, local bans, nationalism, Paul Christensen, Regulation, Seed, seed industry, socio-economic impact
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