Dave Walton
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Without Glyphosate, What Would Farming Look Like?
Dave Walton--who grows corn, soybeans, alfalfa and hay, and is director of the Iowa Soybean Association—discusses the ecological consequences if ...

GMO Myth: Farmers “drown” crops in “dangerous” glyphosate. Fact: They use eye droppers
Anti-GMO activists and even some media reports claim that farmers growing GM crops "douse" their fields in "dangerous chemicals," glyphosate ...

Sweet corn roadside taste-off: Customers learned, sampled and chose GE over conventional
GM foods are disparaged by some critics because they allegedly promote 'industrial agriculture,' such as growing grains for animals or ...

View from an Iowa farm: Anti-GMO professor tries to brainwash students against modern farming
A University Of Northern Iowa (UNI) instructor invited two professors to engage in an exercise analyzing arguments for and against ...

Life as a corn plant is SCARY—Farmers and environmentalists embrace GM Bt corn to ward off pests
''Why do you grow Bt corn?'' Dave Walton answers the question and delves deeper into the reasons of why a ...

I said Syngenta wasn’t listening to farmers about GMO corn—Maybe I was wrong
Syngenta took exception to a couple of issues that raised on this site and responded to the question on if ...

New twist on the China-Viptera GMO corn controversy: Customers are talking—is Syngenta listening?
While China--instigator of a trade war with the US--continues to reject GMO corn exports that contain the Viptera trait, American ...

Anti-GMO activists say farmers are not listening to their customers? Is that true?
Producers are listening to their consumers, argues Iowa farmer Dave Walton, but what gets lost in the discussion is that ...

View from an Iowa farm: In choosing seeds, ‘I’m no pawn of Monsanto’
Every year, farmers are faced with difficult decisions about which seeds they will plant. The wrong choices can be disastrous ...