A group of scientists and food activists is launching a campaign Thursday to change the rules that govern seeds. They're releasing 29 new varieties of crops under a new "open source pledge" that's ...

LEBANON — About 70 percent of all the corn now being harvested across the Midwest comes from just two seed suppliers: DuPont (and its Pioneer Hi-Bred brand) and Monsanto (with its DeKalb brand). Craig ...

When his children were small, Irwin Goldman wanted to give them a beet to snack on — a beet so pretty and swirled with colors, so juicy and delicious, that they’d crunch on it raw. So Goldman, a ...

This movement started as many movements do: friends sitting around a table with booze. A few years ago, Lane Selman, an Oregon State University researcher who works with organic farmers, asked 20 of ...

The seeds planted by farmers and gardeners used to be in the public domain. But then, in the 1980s, new laws and court rulings made it easier to patent them. Ever since then, companies like Monsanto ...

Turf grass breeders want to restrict the labeling of grass seed as “variety not specified,” which critics expect will disrupt Oregon’s farm industry without solving its underlying problems. Currently, ...