GMO corn

Exporters and farmers going in two different directions on GMO corn underscores a new set of challenges faced by international agricultural commodity traders.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and Bunge Ltd., two of the world’s largest grain traders, are facing a new obstacle in their quest to expand corn exports to China — U.S. farmers.

Six months after China began rejecting shipments of a genetically modified corn, Bunge says it won’t take deliveries of the variety developed by Switzerland’s Syngenta AG. ADM will test the corn and may reject it as well. Even so, farmers will soon begin planting it this spring, more interested in its high yield for the domestic market than for exports.

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