Vitamin-A enhanced Golden Rice saga illustrates destructive legacy of anti-GMO hysteria

Vitamin-A enhanced Golden Rice saga illustrates destructive legacy of anti-GMO hysteria

AgWeb | 
Even though 5.2 million children suffer with vision impairment and a potential death sentence, Golden Rice, a contributory answer to ...
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Biodegradable plastic from plants: How GE camelina could advance industrial sustainability

AgWeb | 
Skeptics beware, the proposition around growing a genuinely natural biodegradable plastic may be tied to a technology whose time has ...
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Off-patent GMO Bt corn could slash seed costs for farmers, boost crop yields

Farm Journal | 
Extremely low-cost and high-yield Bt corn? Off-patent, generic Bt corn is rapidly approaching farmland and the price differential might cause ...
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High cost of biotech seeds drives one farmer to switch some acreage to non-GMO

AgWeb | 
In 2014, [farmer Nathan] Reed fought for financial breath even after skinning inputs one by one...With an eye on cost ...
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Freeloading farmers? Alleged cases of organic crop insurance abuses in Texas

AgWeb | 
“Pure and simple, they’ll harvest this field with a disc,” Carroll says. “No yield means big bucks. Rest assured, failure ...

Lower commodity prices could bring resurgence of non-Bt corn… and pests

AgWeb | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Outside expanding fields of ...
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Farmers switch to organic corn makes economic sense even though yield lags

AgWeb | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hippies and anti-GMO zealots ...

India farmer suicides a case of misplaced GM blame

Western Farm Press | 
The following is an excerpt. Numbers are hazy and disputed, but since 1995, facing crippling debt, thousands of Indian farmers ...
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