As New Planting Season Begins, Farmers Aren't Shunning Biotechnology
Star Tribune Company
April 30, 2001
http://www.techreview.com/screaming/bioarticle.asp?SMContentIndex=0&SMContentSet=0
"Now it's time for a planting season that was seen as a potential turning
point in the adoption of new technologies on farms. After all of the
controversy surrounding Starlink and other genetically modified crops, many
consumer and environmental groups expected farmers to back away from
biotech crops.
That isn't happening. One reason -- on Formo's farm and on thousands of
others -- goes back to a perennial uncertainty: the threat of corn borers,
which can chomp away a year's profits in a few days."
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Max More, Ph.D.
max@maxmore.com or more@extropy.org
www.maxmore.com
President, Extropy Institute. www.extropy.org
Senior Content Architect, ManyWorlds Inc.: www.manyworlds.com
Chair, Extro-5: Shaping Things to Come, www.extropy.org/ex5/extro5.htm
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