Organic Farmers File Brief Against Monsanto in Appellate Court
75 family farmers, seed businesses, and agricultural organizations representing over 300,000 individuals and 4,500 farms filed a brief today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal...
View ArticleProminent Allies Join Effort to Challenge Monsanto’s Patents
Eleven prominent law professors and fourteen renowned organic, Biodynamic®, food safety and consumer non-profit organizations have filed separate briefs with the Court of Appeals for the Federal...
View ArticleOSGATA Responds to Flawed NPR Article on GMOs
Today NPR released an article, The Top Five Myths of Genetically Modified Seeds, Busted, by Dan Charles. OSGATA felt compelled to respond in order to set the record straight. Mr. Charles did not reach...
View ArticleOSGATA Board Member Dissents from USDA’s Biotechnology Report and...
The USDA established their Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (known as AC21) in February 2003, with its first meeting in June of that year. Under its Charter, AC21 is...
View ArticleOral Argument Scheduled in OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto
This morning, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., announced that it would hear the family farmers’ Appeal of Dismissal in Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al...
View ArticleOSGATA Reestablishes Farmer Travel Fund
The family farmers’ Appeal of Dismissal in Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al v. Monsanto will be heard in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., at 10 am on...
View ArticleJoin Farmers in Their Stand Against Monsanto
Family farmers are traveling from across North America to Washington, DC, to participate in the January 10, 2013 Oral Argument in the appeal of dismissal for Organic Seed Growers and Trade Asscociation...
View ArticlePlaintiff-Farmers Travel to DC to Attend OSGATA et. al. v. Monsanto Oral...
Thirty-one family farmers, plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit OSGATA et al v. Monsanto, travelled to Washington, D.C., from across North America to attend the Oral Argument in the Appeal of Dismissal...
View ArticleOSGATA Participates in Seed Track at Southern SAWG Conference
The Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SAWG) will host it’s 22nd annual conference, themed “practical tools and solutions for sustaining family farms,” from January 23-26, in Little Rock,...
View ArticleFull Transcript of Oral Arguments in OSGATA vs. Monsanto, January 10, 2013...
Transcript of Oral Argument in OSGATA vs. Monsanto, January 10, 2013 at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Featuring: Judge Wm. C. Bryson Judge Timothy B. Dyk Judge Kimberly...
View ArticleBowman vs. Monsanto: Full Transcript Available
On February 19, 2013, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Bowman vs. Monsanto- a case which holds the potential to affect patent law as we know it, seed and otherwise. Vernon Hugh Bowman is...
View ArticleOSGATA President Keynotes at Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
OSGATA President Jim Gerritsen will be presenting a keynote speech on the OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto lawsuit at the 31st Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC), at the University...
View ArticleHarvesting Justice: A Food Sovereignty Publication and Blog Series
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance, in collaboration with Other Worlds, recently launched a 140-page compendium, and parallel blog series, examining the building of a just and environmentally sustainable...
View ArticleSeed Solution Models for a New Agricultural Paradigm
Stephen Thomas’s “Fixing Food: Seed Solution Models for a New Agricultural Paradigm“-recently published in Acres USA- discusses the importance of regional small-scale organic seed in...
View ArticleJim Gerritsen’s PIELC Keynote Address
OSGATA President Jim Gerritsen’s recent keynote address at the 31st Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC), at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, OR, is now...
View ArticleTell Obama to Veto the Monsanto Protection Act
Late last week Congress succeeded in passing Section 735, aka the Monsanto Protection Act or the Monsanto Rider, in the Continuing Resolution spending bill – HR 933. By sneaking Section 735 into a...
View ArticleOSGATA Submits Comments on Seed Purity to NOSB
The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB)’s spring meeting is Tuesday, April 9, to Thursday, April 11, in Portland, OR. During meetings, the NOSB listens to public comments, discusses their agenda...
View ArticleSeeds: The Buried Beginnings of Food
According to environmental journalist Simran Sethi , the buried foundations of food and future-food are slowly disappearing. Of course, she’s talking about seeds: the memory of life and the wellspring...
View ArticleOSGATA President Presents at Slow Money National Gathering
The upcoming Slow Money 4th National Gathering includes a plenary session on OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto. OSGATA President and Maine organic seed farmer Jim Gerritsen will deliver his special address...
View ArticleGenetically Engineered Wheat Found in Oregon Fields
By Anna Mueller, Guest Blogger Genetically engineered (GE) wheat was recently discovered in an Oregon field despite the fact that all GE wheat trials ended in 2005. According to NPR, this particular...
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