Mossback Farm » soylandia http://www.mossbackfarm.com Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:46:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Soylandia, II http://www.mossbackfarm.com/2009/03/soylandia-ii/ http://www.mossbackfarm.com/2009/03/soylandia-ii/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:14:55 +0000 rich http://www.mossbackfarm.com/?p=754 In more Soylandia news, farmers who illegally planted genetically modified Roundup Ready soybeans are now going back to conventional soy after finding that the Monsanto product gave poor yields.

Unfortunately, the final paragraph is the stomach-sinker:

“Companies have been focusing their research on GMO soy more than on conventional ones. So in 10 years we could have 100 percent of the area planted with GMO soy not because this was farmers’ choice exactly but because development of new conventional varieties is getting scarce,”

Translated: there’s not much money in developing new productive soy strains that aren’t dependent on chemicals.

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