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EC Nebraska | So it's the non-GMO crops that have been removed from your rotation.
You say that soybeans are easy to grow. But was that true 20 years ago? I'm guessing it wasn't. I'm guessing that 20 years ago you didn't have soybean varieties that grew in your area.
I think that much of the reason that soybeans are easy for you to grow compared to wheat is that farmers down here stopped saving soybean seed and started buying GMO seed every year. That meant the seed companies had a lot more dollars to invest in research. And that led to soybean varieties that are easy for you to grow.
If GMO soybeans had never happened, if soybeans were still saved like wheat, I'm guessing that there would be alot fewer acres of soybeans planted today because the genetic improvements wouldn't have happened.
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Corn/Soybeans on the GMO fringe
