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Milkweed, like other weeds, can stifle crop yield, so farmers don’t like it Sounds like this isn't a fundamental problem with GMO's, it just allows farmers to
by sliverstorm 10y ago
Milkweed, like other weeds, can stifle crop yield, so farmers don’t like it
Sounds like this isn't a fundamental problem with GMO's, it just allows farmers to fight milkweed more effectively than they could before. The best solution is to balance both interests, not to tie the hands of farmers or to eliminate milkweed. (I'm not sure how we do that)
a 2007 congressional ethanol mandate increased the price of corn and soybeans, which encouraged farmers to convert grassland -- where milkweed grows -- into cropland
Sounds like a policy problem, not a GMO problem?
- hx87 10y ago> I'm not sure how we do that GMO milkweed, and other weeds, I presume. Perhaps Monsanto can create and patent an entire polyculture to be grown as a unit?