GLG News by Council Members Knowledgeable on Biofertilizers

This article is an interview with the author of a new book, Appetite for Profit , which is another attack on the food industry. This book is probably not going to get as much attention as "Fast Food Nation" unless there is a documentary made based on it. Nevertheless the book would appear to make for...

This article makes a couple of good points, but gets off-track, in my opinion, when the author delves into the long-term effects of the ethanol boom on the agricultural economy. > Agreed, the Brazilian ethanol industry can't be used to model where the US industry can go.> Agreed, grain based...

US Secretary of Agriculture Johanns announced the Bush administration's proposals for a new farm bill yesterday. There are many articles out today commenting on the proposal, with many groups supporting the cuts to large farmers, and increased research funding for ethanol and conservation (see link...

Last year President Evo Morales of Bolivia had to abandon his efforts to nationalize the mining sector. The miners of Bolivia have been a radical and violent group for decades and major supporters of President Morales and his nationalistic campaign. He would have gone ahead with the nationalization...

The article and the NYT followup editorial on 1/25/07, "Energy Rhetoric, and Reality", did not get the story right any more then the President did in his State of the Union Address.The President increased his push for alternative fuels, raising the bar from last year's 7.5 billion gallons by 2012 to...

The President's State of the Union Speech next week is going to contain a change of course relative to its global warming policy according to the British paper The Observer.Pressure is snowballing for the Bush Administration to take the lead on this major issue before the Democrats, who now control...

The ISAAA announced on 1/18/2007 that for 2006 the world seeded 252 million acres with genetically modified  (GM) seeds, a 13% increase over 2005. There are now 10.3 million farmers growing GM crops, a 21% increase from the previous year. According to this article that number could jump by 80 million...

According to this article from the Associated Press from 1/9/07 one would think that the ethanol industry was about to collapse just as new production in being announced.Is the largest agri-industrial company Cargill announcing a major expansion of capacity with the planned addition of 4 new ethanol...

England's consumers are as organic as they get, and yet their Secretary of state for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says that Organic Food is no better than nonorganic farm food. What's happening in this very green country? Is the sky falling or will this market continue to grow in the UK as...

 Soybean prices do have significant upside potential over the next 12 months, but it may be too early to be making bets on the if, when and how much.