Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer in licensing deals

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 26, 2013
Tags: agricultural products, DuPont, gmo, lawsuit, licensing agreement, monsanto, organic, patent

NEW YORK — Agricultural products giant Monsanto and DuPont on Tuesday said they reached a deal to dismiss pending patent lawsuits against one another and entered a series of multi-million dollar licensing agreements. The lawsuits included antitrust and first-generation Roundup Ready soybean patent lawsuits pending in U.S. federal court in St. Louis. The licensing deals [...]

Md. organic firms not worried about California initiative

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: September 24, 2012
Tags: baltimore convention center, Botanical Skin Works, california, convention, farmers, farms, maryland, Natural Products Expo East, organic, Salazon Chocolate Co., Small business

Owners of small organic businesses in Maryland aren’t fretting about a California ballot initiative that would require the labeling of genetically engineered ingredients in products like food and clothing because, they say, their products don’t have any ingredients to hide. Maryland shoppers are “passionate about what they are putting into their bodies,” said Erica Stone, [...]

Maryland salad dressing makers seek to expand

BY: The Capital of Annapolis
POSTED: March 28, 2012
Tags: bottles, Eastern Shore, eastport, greg vetter, organic, salad dressing, tessemae's all natural, whole foods

EASTPORT — The Vetter family takes pride in their homemade salad dressing, from its natural ingredients on down to the slightly crooked bottle labels. But as the demand for Tessemae’s All Natural grows, the Vetters realized they needed to speed up their rate of production. They are waiting to learn if they’ve been approved for [...]

USDA: ‘Locally grown’ food a $4.8B business

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: November 14, 2011
Tags: corn, farmer, fruits, grocers, growers, local foods, organic, sales, soybeans, u.s. department of agriculture, vegetables

ST. LOUIS — Carolyn Anderson likes to chat up the growers at her local farmers market in Missouri, at times hanging out behind the beds of pickup trucks brimming with ears of corn. For Anderson, 29, it’s all about keeping it “local.” And there’s fresh evidence of just how big of a deal that word [...]

Plastic bottle ban a gamble for Rockville organic grocer

BY: Rachel Pryzgoda
POSTED: June 9, 2010
Tags: green, organic, plastic bottles

MOM’s Organic Market will remove all bottled water from its environmentally friendly shelves by the end of the month, a move CEO Scott Nash calls “plastic surgery” but one an industry group says could ultimately turn away customers. The initiative, dubbed “Battle the Bottle,” was unveiled Monday by the Rockville-based organic grocer and aims to [...]