After an exhaustive review, the USDA gave Roundup Ready Alfalfa the green light in 2005.
In fact, this has happened twice in recent years, with alfalfa and sugar beets.
Farmers have the go ahead to use GM Alfalfa that was developed by Monsanto.
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She picked her way through the alfalfa and took the road that ran through the village.
The US is the world's largest producer of alfalfa, a grass-like plant used as animal feed.
Even a decade ago, they were sometimes caricatured as a protest party of bearded sandal-wearing alfalfa-eaters.
He considers himself one of the lucky ones because he grows his own corn, soybeans and alfalfa.
Mr. RUSTY THOMPSON (Fifth-Generation Farmer, Kentucky): We're out in the middle of the alfalfa fields right now.
Alfalfa is usually grown to be turned into hay, which is fed to dairy cows throughout the country.
If the feed hay is laden with weeds its nutritional value plummets and the alfalfa grower loses money.
Bees-for-hire pollinate many of the nation's crops, including alfalfa, apples, almonds, tomatoes and a range of citrus fruits.
Its inhabitants tend goats and grow carrots, alfalfa and several varieties of potato.
Geertson Seed Farms, a federal court agreed with CFS, prohibiting Monsanto from selling Roundup Ready Alfalfa pending yet another assessment.
The most common Genetically Engineered crops are Corn, Soy, Canola, Sugar Beets, Cotton, Hawaiian Papaya, Alfalfa, and Squash (zucchini and yellow).
We're spraying the alfalfa for a insect pest called a alfalfa weevil.
The legal status of a field of GM alfalfa planted legally after the USDA had deregulated GE alfalfa was suddenly changed under the court ruling.
The alfalfa case standoff eventually made it to the Supreme Court.
This was incredibly disruptive to thousands of farmers who had planted alfalfa, which is a perennial crop so does not have to be reseeded each year.
The herbicide-resistant alfalfa and sugar beet seeds under attack by activists are just the beginning of what will be necessary to feed a growing world: The U.N.
During the two years the injunction against planting genetically engineered alfalfa has been in place, how many more millions of pounds of herbicide have been used unnecessarily?
He raises cattle and grows corn, soybeans, alfalfa and tobacco.
They have asked the federal courts to halt the planting of herbicide-resistant alfalfa and sugar beets, because of alleged procedural--but wholly inconsequential--deficiencies in the USDA evaluations of the products.
The temporary injunction, by then determined to be abusive, proved a financial disaster for the farm industry and many individual farmers who had suspended planting alfalfa pending a final resolution.
They also argued over-use of the company's weedkiller Roundup, the chemical treatment the alfalfa is modified to be resistant to, could cause pollution of ground water and lead to resistant "super-weeds".
The genetically engineered alfalfa and sugar beet seeds currently being withheld from growers are both "Roundup ready, " which means that the seeds have been genetically engineered to produce crops that can withstand the application of Roundup herbicide.
Pigs or indeed potatoes can produce human proteins for medical use (though none has yet received authorisation), foot-and-mouth vaccine can come from alfalfa, genes from enzyme-making bacteria can do the same job in tobacco, and useful new enzymes can be found and put into old bacteria.
Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flooding in Alfalfa, Craig, Grant, Kay, and Nowata Counties.
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However, when in December the USDA indicated that a complete ban on GMO alfalfa was no longer a possible outcome, Organic Valley and the others went to work advocating for a set of strict rules that would serve to protect organic farmers and organic consumers from the threat of GMO contamination.
Some of the fringe activist groups opposed to genetic engineering have an anti-science, anti-technology, anti-business agenda, but given the environmental advantages of Roundup-ready seeds it's puzzling that a group like the Sierra Club, one of the co-plaintiffs in the alfalfa and sugar beet litigation, is working so hard to keep the seeds off the market.
Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe winter storm and snowstorm in the counties of Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Major, Noble, Roger Mills, Washita, Woods, and Woodward.
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