Chris Bennett
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Biodegradable plastic from plants: How GE camelina could advance industrial sustainability
Skeptics beware, the proposition around growing a genuinely natural biodegradable plastic may be tied to a technology whose time has ...
Off-patent GMO Bt corn could slash seed costs for farmers, boost crop yields
Extremely low-cost and high-yield Bt corn? Off-patent, generic Bt corn is rapidly approaching farmland and the price differential might cause ...
High cost of biotech seeds drives one farmer to switch some acreage to non-GMO
In 2014, [farmer Nathan] Reed fought for financial breath even after skinning inputs one by one...With an eye on cost ...
Freeloading farmers? Alleged cases of organic crop insurance abuses in Texas
“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
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Outside expanding fields of ...
Farmers switch to organic corn makes economic sense even though yield lags
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
The following is an excerpt. Numbers are hazy and disputed, but since 1995, facing crippling debt, thousands of Indian farmers ...
