What’s in the seed bag beyond variety? Everything, at least for a non-GMO producer. With a 0.9% GMO-presence threshold separating who gets a ticket to the premium markets of Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Consumers have become more health conscious in the past few decades, which has given rise to the popularity of foods labeled as "organic" and "non-GMO." However, despite a higher interest in these ...

The ubiquitous Non-GMO Project—a third party that verifies and labels over $19 billion worth of products per year and quickly growing—adorns pantry staples like fresh produce, breads, pastas and ...

A lot of Americans are worried about foods made from genetically modified crops, which largely means products that have corn, soy or sugar beet ingredients. The genetic material of those crops has ...

Nathan Reed is rumbling north on a Lee County levee with Crowley’s Ridge rising a mile west and the old St. Francis River rolling two miles east. Wedged in the flats between levee and river, farmland ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about food tech and science. Equinom, an Israeli startup, raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding from BASF ...

This winter as seed catalogs started showing up in gardeners' mailboxes, one stood out. Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company splashed photos of the purple galaxy tomato on its cover. It bragged, This ...

The seeds released this year inadvertently made it on to the cover of a non-GMO seed catalog. How seeds for genetically modified purple tomatoes ended up in a non-GMO seed catalog The seeds released ...

Farmers don’t have a reputation for skewing to the political left, but just get them talking about seeds. At an expo center on the outskirts of Memphis one gray February day, several dozen of them ...