We could do something with genes, chemicals, and crops, but there are a lot of obstacles (more than we'd like to deal with). The main issue (for me at least) is

We could do something with genes, chemicals, and crops, but there are a lot of obstacles (more than we'd like to deal with). The main issue (for me at least) is the mass amount of time and research it will take to work with that sort of science. We could do it, but in my opinion I may as well go to grad school because I'd probably be doing the same sort of research anyway (but getting a Phd at the end of it). Plus, people are only now coming around to not looking at GMO foods as alien-mutant-degenerate crops. Europe is still very much against it. My current job is to take the sorghum and maize genome and to analyze the genes (basically figuring out which genes they share, when they diverged, and how that can be applied to improving their yield).