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Ah yes, Bayer Crop Science. The science division of a company that likes Monsanto's business model so much, they bought Monsanto. Good to see they found a fresh
by TheRealPomax 7y ago
Ah yes, Bayer Crop Science. The science division of a company that likes Monsanto's business model so much, they bought Monsanto. Good to see they found a fresh market for releasing "low-toxicity insecticide" into the food chain.
- febeling 7y agoUnderstand the sentiment. But applying it selectively seems to be desirable, no matter how euphemistic the low-toxicity part is.
- acadien 7y agoThe article said nothing about selective dispersal. For all we know these drones are just fancy crop dusters.
- ijpoijpoihpiuoh 7y agoFrom what I can read of the press release, they are claiming a reduction of 30% in the amount of pesticide used. So, a significant incremental improvement, but certainly not something truly smart like using a camera to identify individual pests and targeting those pests with directed blasts of insecticide. Still a few years from that version of this tech.
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- ekianjo 7y agoIn case you don't know, company executives make merger decisions and nobody else knows about it until it's done. So anyone at working level in Bayer Crop Science has pretty much nothing to do with the Monsanto deal.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Bayer Crop Science. The science division No, the agriculture division. The pharma parts of Bayer are as much science as the Crop Science part, they differ in product domain not “science”.