What the opinion of the guys on here as to plant the newest genetics that are GMO vs planting non-GMO ?? I am thinking of the cost difference for the seed costs not a premium later for the grain. I know a few in my area have gone this route and seem to do fine and besides I am now using herbicide products which are not even using the roundup system trying to keep the resistant weeds away.
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I think the valve in GMO is for the corn bore and root worm more than the round up. I like to use Liberty corn to help with mare tail I have at one farm. I also plant a lot of sweet corn and the GMO is a far superior product,no worms in the ear and I can spray it with round up.
I have been planting the GMO sweet corn the past 3-4 years and love it no grass and no bugs, but I got my neighbor some non GMO corn lsat year and his yield was the same as mine and way less seed cost and I was even using insecticide which I am considering not using this year as I plant only corn after bean rotation.
The seed is high for sure! I have customers that will only eat my corn, say its the best tasting. I plant some non GMO that I get free from seed corn company's and it hard to weed and late season we have ear worms bad. The main reason I use round up corn is that dad killed of about a quarter acre because the chemical was to strong. I have a sprayer and booms for my 4 wheeler and only use round up in it so works great for the corn patch.
You have to plant both in your field side by side with the same inputs to know for sure the differences. Comparing to your neighbour's field is open to question since inputs, soil, and other variables come into play. GMO'S have relieved me from using toxic insecticides, better yields and a simpler pesticide program, and more than recover the additional cost. Ben
Donald Lehman
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If it wasn't for genetic modification corn wouldn't even exist. Look up what the "corn" the Maya's an Aztecs planted was compared to what we call corn today. The GMO scam ranks right up there with the bovine growth hormones thing in milk and the organic food scam.
There is a huge difference between a hybrid and a GMO, get your story straight! You have a computer, you can research it! A hybrid can (not will) occur in nature were they is no possible way a GMO can.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not declaring one way or the other weather GMO's are good or bad. But you DO NOT help your side out with outright lies perpetrated by the seed companies to help their SALES. They have good reason to tell that lie. It's to try to keep the uninformed from turning against them and demanding non GMO product. If a concerned consumer who is still on the fence hears your comment then looks it up they will now be ANTI GMO because they will start believing everything ANTI GMO they hear because they were already told a lie.
Won't comment on the growth stuff because I just don't know enough but will totally agree with the organic scam comment.
Rick
Just something to think about.
I don't know how close your fields are to your neighbors corn fields but cross pollination can be an issue.
I tried Non GMO for a few years to claim the non gmo premium. I had 1 out of every 3 loads get rejected for GMO's.
My farms were bordered by farms that were growing GMO's.
I don't know how close your fields are to your neighbors corn fields but cross pollination can be an issue.
I tried Non GMO for a few years to claim the non gmo premium. I had 1 out of every 3 loads get rejected for GMO's.
My farms were bordered by farms that were growing GMO's.
The earliest GMO corn I have heard of was invented in 1990 or so. (RR corn).Farmers started buying & planting huge acreages to GMO corn around 1995. The Indians never had GMO corn. Mother nature can cross pollenate by wind etc, that is not the same as GMO corn created by plant scientists in a laboratory. Scientists are the folks doing genetic modification of corn plants. Something like 80-85% of field corn planted in the US today is GMO corn. That has happened in about the last 22 years.. before that hybrid corn was planted since 1930's...........before that open pollinated corn.
oliverplow
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I plant all RR corn and beans. Years ago, I planted some start RR corn, as insect refuge fields. That fall, I had nice big ears all over the ground in there. Since then, I'm 100% refuge in bag.
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