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Such souped-up plants are understandably popular with farmers, for whom even a slight increase in yield can mean a big increase in profits. Last year in the U.S., 35% of the soy crop and 42% of the cotton crop were grown with GM seeds. Says Karen Marshall, a Monsanto spokeswoman: "These really do work and have tremendous benefits to growers...
...back with a 100% tariff on some E.U. food exports. Coming in the midst of such a catfight, the GM ban looks like vengeance as much as prudence. What's more, if Europe is so worried about GM foods, why is it growing them? France produces its own small crop of GM corn and uses more of the stuff than any other country in Europe...
Call it luck or write it off to coincidence, but Ireland and her people crop up often in the season's new books...
...says. "I just couldn't see much future in what I was doing." But Zaitz could see a future on the Internet, to which he'd been introduced a few months earlier. He had a vision of creating "a complete marketplace for all participants in agriculture," he says, "where crop producers and livestock farmers could come together and do business without having to step a foot off their farms...
...exactly agriculture, but the drought currently affecting the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest appars to be having a devastating effect on another rural crop: fall foliage. The lack of moisture has caused trees in New England and beyond to dry up and turn brown ahead of schedule. This has local businesses worried that the lack of foliage could cause tourists to make like a tree and, well, not show up at all those cute bed-and-breakfasts. And that could shave a considerable chunk of the estimated $8 billion that leaf-peepers pump into the regional economy...