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11 Aug 2017, 6:53 am by Jennifer Davis
The Soil Conservation Service encouraged Southern farmers to plant it in the 1930s and 1940s as a cover crop to add nitrogen to soil depleted by cotton crops. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 9:00 pm by Stu Ellis
  Ask Mama if she will let you plant her garden into corn. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 4:15 pm by Deven Desai
Bt cotton is engineered to express in the plant the same caterpillar-killing toxin as the common soil bacteria used by organic farmers, Bacillus thuringiensis. [read post]
10 Jan 2014, 11:08 am
Crops like wheat, rice, soybeans, and cotton evolved during periods of much higher carbon dioxide levels, and as carbon dioxide levels rise these types of plants could become more efficient. [read post]
14 May 2013, 2:09 pm
He took the soybeans he purchased home; planted them in his fields at the time he thought best; applied glyphosate to kill weeds (as well as any soy plants lacking the Roundup Ready trait); and finally harvested more (many more) beans than he started with. [read post]
12 Jun 2023, 9:04 pm by Dan Flynn
Specifically, both Enlist products can be applied “any time before or after planting, but before [crops] emerge (pre-plant through preemergence), as well as after Enlist-resistant crops have emerged from the soil (postemergence). [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 8:57 pm by Stu Ellis
  If higher payments were given to wheat, cotton and rice, Schnitkey says it would have unintended impacts on planting decisions in the future. [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 6:54 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Books are largely paper, and paper is largely plants. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 5:55 am by Denis Stearns
A 3-ounce cup of ice cream contaminated with Listeria was traced to a plant in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 11:40 pm by shellis
” Summary: In the years since the 1995 Farm Bill, which allowed more flexibility in making planting decisions, corn and soybean acreage has increased, with corresponding decreases in acreage for wheat, barley, hay and cotton. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 9:04 am by admin
In the 1980s scientists took the bt toxin and incorporated it through genetic modification into a cotton plant renamed ‘bt cotton’. [read post]
9 Jun 2013, 8:13 am
  This exact question is under consideration in lawsuit filed by an organic cotton farmer in Texas, as described by the Texas Observer here. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 2:59 am
  The Peruvian Association of Consumers and Users supported the new law.Peru's National Society of Industries plans to implement the new bill in compliance with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization's Codex Alimentarius.The last time Peru came up in GM news was when the International Service for Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a nonprofit group monitoring GM crops, reported earlier this year than GM crops are now being planted in 25 countries… [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 2:21 am by Bill Marler
This cup was produced in the Broken Arrow, Okla., plant on April 15, 2014. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 9:21 am by Bill Marler
This cup was produced in the Broken Arrow, Okla., plant on April 15, 2014. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 11:44 am by Candice Francis
The proverbial image of black people as chattel laboring in cotton fields stalked by an overseer gave way to a Pacific Coast version with similar conditions. [read post]
Officer Hubbard further explained that heroin users usually keep the cotton ball “so that they can get the heroin out of [the cotton ball] later. [read post]
5 Mar 2023, 4:39 am by WIRED
There’s nothing in the farms, the drought is too harsh,” says Daniel Magondo, a cotton and maize farmer in central Kenya. [read post]