Breakthrough: The Blue Rose

Telegraph (UK): It is the "Holy Grail" of horticulture and soon it could make the perfect present for Mother's Day: scientists have found a way to produce a blue rose. A chance discovery in a laboratory means that they will...

EU: Genetically Modified Food OK To Eat

San Jose Mercury News: The European Union's head office said Friday that it would approve a type of genetically modified corn for human consumption, ending a six-year biotech moratorium that the United States has challenged at the World Trade Organization....

Crossroads for Online Wine Sales

New York Times: Online wine sales could be at a turning point. In the last few months, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, in response to legislative action and court cases, have begun opening their borders to direct-to-consumer wine...

WHO Says No to Farm Antibiotics

Wired Farmers worldwide should reduce the use of antibiotics in their livestock to help curb the growth of drug-resistant bacteria in humans, the World Health Organization reported. High-profile scares over the transmission of resistant forms of bacteria have become increasingly...

California garlic farmers cede decade-long battle to Chinese exports

San Jose Mercury News Don Christopher's garlic fields have survived droughts and El Nino, gophers and beetles, white mold and roundworm. But the founder of Christopher Ranch, the nation's largest garlic producer, says low-priced exports from could doom U.S. commercial...

India: Transformation and Its New Wine Economy

Food Production Daily: NASIK, India — Educated in Silicon Valley but seduced by Sonoma Valley, Rajeev Samant decided to come home to these dry hills northeast of Bombay to try making wine in India, a nation where annual wine consumption...