Genetic Use Restriction Technologies could be applied to seeds to remedy intellectual property issues that stem from seed-saving, but the seed industry may never be able to actually use the developed ...

Herbicides are not only harmful to the environment, they're also costly and time-consuming to apply. A new device could drastically reduce the need for them, however, while also providing crops with a ...

Saskatchewan farmer Josh Lade talks about his experience using the Seed Terminator on his farm and how the mechanical weed control device reduces herbicide costs.

If death by hammer blow is the way to kill weed seed at harvest, then make way for the Seed Terminator (ST). The ST grabs chaff leaving a combine’s cleaning shoe and pulverizes weed seed through ...

Brazil’s agribusiness lobby is using the cover provided by the Rousseff administration scandal as cover to rapidly push a Terminator seed amendment through Congress. Terminator seeds are controlled ...

Seventy-five-thousand dollars is a lot of money to put into a tool whose only job is to obliterate weed seeds. But buying such a tool – called a harvest weed seed control system (HWSC), which uses ...

A technology called a ‘terminator’ was never going to curry much favour with the public. But even Monsanto, the agricultural biotechnology giant in St Louis, Missouri, was surprised by the furore that ...

"Genetic Use Restriction Technology," or GURT, is the original name given to the broader technology that is best known for its subset of "Terminator" qualities. U.S. patents for GURTs were awarded to ...