Fantastic news ... farmers are
"getting it."
Laurel Hopwood, Chair, Sierra Club
Genetic Engineering Action Team
Farmer interest in non-GMO beans, corn grows
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Wayne Hoener, vice president of sales for eMerge, a Des Moines-based
seed company that sells non-GMO corn and soybean seed to farmers, says
there has been strong interest from farmers for non-GMO seed for next
spring.
There are several reasons for that interest, he says.
One of the reasons is - there have
long been concerns about the potential for weed resistance to
glyphosate.
Interest in non-GMO crops has been
increasing in recent years, Hoener says. One reason for that is
companies producing non-GMO seed have done a better job of producing
varieties that yield as well as the GMO varieties.
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