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To: neolib who wrote (239567)	12/8/2013 12:16:16 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541974

The Post-GMO Economy One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed — and he’s not alone By Elizabeth Royte on December 6, 2013 modernfarmer.com Photography by Daniel Shea As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks still call Huegerich “Crash.” And though he eventually went down a conventional path (married, divorced) and bought out his parents’ farm, Huegerich has recently reverted to his daredevil ways — at least when it comes to choosing what kind of corn to plant. It’s late November, and Huegerich’s 2,800 acres in central Iowa have been neatly shorn to sepia-and-umber stubble. His enormous combines and cultivators have been precision parked — wheel nut to headlight — inside his equipment sheds. But in Huegerich’s office, between the fields and the sheds, chaos reigns. A dozen dog-eared seed catalogs litter a table, along with marked-up spreadsheets and soil maps. For farmers choosing next year’s crop, this is decision time. <more>

To: neolib who wrote (239567)	12/8/2013 1:16:55 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541974

Yep, dogs and coyotes can breed I think. Wolves and dogs for sure. Mutations have a constant, so lends itself to statistical calculation for time periods. But events can speed up evolution. In general, I have read it takes 20,000 years to change from black to white to get adequate vitamin D and certain characteristics like blue eyes and glutton tolerance maybe new adaptation. If mice live in an area that has a terrible drought and 10% contain a recessive gene that allows them to get enough water from plants, then the dominate genes die out and the recessive gene becomes dominate. Sort of like that. Evolution is very complicated at the micro level. <<Species is a very artificial concept. The real world is a bit more complex. Many species which are classified as such can in fact breed with closely related ones, its just that they don't in general.