Vilsack: Mexico’s election could lead to shift in GM corn policy

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Sunday said he hoped Mexico’s presidential election next year would lead to a change in the country’s policy toward genetically modified corn. The U.S. earlier this year launched a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement dispute settlement panel to adjudicate a disagreement over restrictions on GM corn use put in place by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the U.S. contends are not rooted in science and threaten U.S. exports. Under Mexican law, López Obrador cannot run again;...