Fodder

Newly legalized, textile mills are processing the country’s first modern harvest of industrial hemp. Michael Lawton reports from Germany on the new varieties of the crop, which cannot be made into marijuana, and the forecast for the multi-purpose crop’s financial success.

40 years ago scientists developed a soybean seed able to grown in Brazil’s vast tropical savannah. The crop has transformed the landscape and soon Brazil will be the world’s largest producer of soybeans. Now a new generation of soy seed is being introduce

Commodity exports have soared in recent years and they’ve helped cushion Latin America from much of the global downturn. But many countries including Argentina are still vulnerable. Ian Mount sent us this report from Buenos Aires.

Journalist Jim Steele talks about why Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, has taken to patrolling small-town America in search of farmers who are violating its genetically-modified seed patents.