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How GMO Labeling could Help Monsanto

If GMOs are safe, why is Monsanto so opposed to labeling them on food products? Shouldn’t we have a choice about what we buy? I hear both of these statements a lot and I think they are valid questions with complicated answers. I’m just not sure everyone is really interested in the answer. It has to do with food costs and consumer awareness and government regulations and lots of other stuff I’d be happy to go into in another post. For now, lets focus on a not-so-obvious reason labeling GMOs might not be as good for us as we think. One common misconception I’d like to debunk is that Monsanto is the only company creating GMO products. In reality there are many companies trying to compete in the free market for a share of the sales created by this technology. Monsanto is just the most well-known, certainly the most hated. Currently each of the companies I linked to is busy hiring the best and brightest, dreaming up new technology, and testing those products over and over

What's a commodity crop?

A scene from Erin Brenneman’s farm (above) Have you ever wondered what a “commodity crop” is and how it’s used? Think corn, soybeans, cotton, and other crops that can be easily traded, stored for a long time, and grown in large quantities. For instance, when you think of cotton you don’t ask where it’s grown or what year it was harvested – it’s just “cotton.” That’s what a commodity crop is. Farmers grow commodity crops for many reasons, one of which is for use on their own farm. To give more insight from real farmers, we reached out to our Faces of Farming & Ranching to learn from them how commodity crops play a role on their farms. Thomas Titus, Erin Brenneman and Carla Wardin give us some insights. On Thomas Titus’s farm, commodity crops are feed for his pigs and cattle. He tells us: Where we farm in central Illinois, we are blessed with some of the most fertile and productive soil as well as an ideal growing season for a variety of crops. We primarily plant c

Maximizing yield data

With wireless data transfer and a connection to a trusted provider, farmers can maximize yield data for crop management. As combines rolled out of fields across the Midwest in 2014 there was a new practice that got started, and may become more common in the future. Those combines sent their yield data to a secure cloud where farmers could see the information quickly, and share as needed with agronomists or other trusted providers. “We’re getting more people asking us about this every year,” says Justin Yepsen, North Illinois/Wisconsin Division precision ag manager, Crop Production Services, Janesville, Wis. “We’re expanding this with customers.” Justin Blanchette, left, works with folks like Justin Yepsen, Crop Production Services, to help them make the connection between data collected in the field and information farmers can put to use on the farm. Yepsen notes that he worked with a group of customers in 2014 to take in yield data over wireless data transfer, process the

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