GMO's not delivering as the companies promised is nothing new. There have been problems with crop failures and low yields for a long time. Now companies that produce GMO's have this to deal with. The top three yielding corn crops in the USA were from hybrid corn varieties. One of these farmers, from right here in Virginia, set a world yield record ( http://bit.ly/1cQpLvi ). We can only hope that this will be one more nail in the coffin for GMO's.
Are GMO's headed for the trash heap of history? We can only hope. My optimism is growing that it will. There has been a growing trend in farmers moving away from GMO products. A lot of the drive has been due to cost. Roundup, the chemical used to kill everything in a field except the GMO plants planted there, is as one farmer described it, "as cheap as water." But the seed is another story. It is highly expensive. The farmer I quoted quit raising GMO corn for his 500 head dairy for two reasons - cost and it didn't work as promised.
GMO's not delivering as the companies promised is nothing new. There have been problems with crop failures and low yields for a long time. Now companies that produce GMO's have this to deal with. The top three yielding corn crops in the USA were from hybrid corn varieties. One of these farmers, from right here in Virginia, set a world yield record ( http://bit.ly/1cQpLvi ). We can only hope that this will be one more nail in the coffin for GMO's.
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