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April 27/00 / AP/Reuters

May 2, 2000 / The Associated Press / Krishnan Guruswamy NEW DELHI, India -- The Helicoverpa caterpillar that is resistant to pesticides has, according to this story, eaten half the tomato crop in and around the capital as frustrated farmers douse their fields with chemicals in vain.

May 8, 2000 / By PHILIP BRASHER, AP Farm Writer CHICAGO (AP) - Europeans and Japanese don't want gene-altered crops. Frito-Lay, McDonald's and Gerber have rejected them, too. But grocers say American consumers don't seem to care one way or the other - at least not yet.

INGENUITY WITH CURRENT TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP SOLVE THE CONFLICTING DEMANDS OF MARKET, YIELD AND FARM SURVIVAL April 28, 2000 / The Vancouver Sun / Editorial

Tuesday, 2 May 2000 / CSIRO Media Release / Ref 2000/114

UK - The Independent / By Andrea Babbington / 29 April 2000 Heavy spring rain is putting government GM crop trials at risk, researchers claimed today. More than 50 British farmers are preparing to carry out the tests, but BBC1 programme Countryfile found that most had failed to plant their crops because of recent heavy rains.

ASSOCIATED PRESS EDGERTON, WIS. - Opponents of large-scale dairy farms have won a fight to keep a proposed $10 million, 2,850-cow dairy farm out of Edgerton. "It has been an endless battle" to come up with a suitable site, said Ken Buelow, who would have been part-owner and manager of the farm proposed in the town of Porter.

May 2000 / Nature Biotechnology / Volume 18 Number 5 pp 484 - 485 / Asako Saegusa Asako Saegusa is a freelance science writer working in Tokyo.