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To: epicure who wrote (101965)	4/26/2005 8:05:04 AM
From: JeffA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The rewards as I understand them are as follows: (BTW, not to mislead you, my parent company makes the stuff, I work for a subsidiary and have nothing to do with the GM stuff. I build acid plants and electrical powerhouses.) 1. No till. Saves lots of fuel, lots of pollution belched out by the tractors 2. Reduction of weed killer. Now you can spray the fields once or twice, right on the crops and the weeds die. Higher yields and healthier plants. 3. Higher yields. 4. Reduction of pesticides. Some GM plants also have built in pesticides if you will. By not having to spray, the runoff and associated problems are greatly reduced. As I stated, I am not directly involved here, but these are the things I know are true. Do I worry about GM crops? Not in the slightest. Do I worry about irradiated food? Nope. Now, if you start giving food human genes, I might care. That is too strange. Another thing we are working on is getting the row corn you see in fields all over the US to bear more than one ear of corn per stalk. When we plant corn as we do for grain and for consumption, a farmer may plant up to 35,000 plants per acre. That is too many for the corn to bear more than one ear per stalk. We're working on keeping that density, or actually increasing it to no rows at all, but getting the plants to bear two or three ears. How's that, a GM crop that could triple the output for a given field. Not too bad of a goal.