Big, evil corporate giant (read with sarcasm) Monsanto has a new product coming to market according to its blog Beyond the Rows. Sweet corn genetically modified to express the Bt insecticide trait that prevails in much of the conventional corn market. This trait allows the plant to create a toxin that is harmful to certain […]
Category: Biotechnology
I just got done commenting on a post at Blast Magazine entitled “Modern agriculture’s enormous environmental footprint.” My comment become long enough that I decided to re-post it here on my blog. Judging by the title of the post on Blast you can probably guess what it says for the most part, but go ahead […]
Mike Rowe, host of the popular show Dirty Jobs once said, “Green maybe wasn’t the best color. Seems to me that brown would be better suited. Think about it, everything that’s green starts with something that’s brown, usually dirt. And if you were to scrape the dirt off of the farmers from coast […]
There are those who would have the general population believe biotech crops are grown solely with profits in mind with total disregard for the surrounding environment. What you might not hear about are the things farmers must do to protect the pests that rob them of those profitable yields. I’m talking about refuge acres. Let’s […]
Update November 13, 2013 What’s become of Dr. Huber and his claim of a new organism that causes trouble for seemingly every living thing on the planet in the nearly three years since I published this post? The latest news is from Dr. Kevin Folta who I’ve had the privelage of meeting over dinner while […]
Agriculture often gets a bad reputation for using more fertilizer, more chemicals, more of everything to produce a bigger yield when what is really happening is that research and technology allow us to produce more with less inputs over time. If you think about what’s good for the farmer’s pocketbook you will often find it’s […]