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Biotech
Scares Organic Growers
in Kansas
Some Kansas farmers
are worried about the implications of a plan to recruit bioscience
companies
to the state, according to a report in USA
Today. "I do not believe that in corn country we can keep a
genetically
engineered crop segregated from a commercially grown crop," said Paul
Johnson,
an organic farmer who lives near Perry. "There will be
cross-pollination.
So the question becomes: Do you really want heart medicine in your
morning
corn flakes?" |
The
Organic Food Guide:
How to Shop Smarter
and Eat Healthier
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All
Flesh Is Grass |
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Solution to Revegetation
Planting grass in a
series of small "islands" across western rangelands may be the most
environmentally
friendly way to reclaim these lands from invasive weeds, according to
an
Agricultural Research Service scientist. For years, scientists have
used
various methods to try to revegetate western rangelands overrun by
invasive
weeds. Now ARS weed ecologist Roger Sheley is studying "seed source
islands"
as a way to spread desired native grasses across rangelands that the
weeds
have taken over. To create the islands, Sheley plants a small plot of
the
desired species in the middle of a weedy area. Examples of the species
he's tested include purple coneflower and cudweed sagewort. These plots
are fenced off for several years, to allow new plants grow. In the
meantime,
livestock eat the weeds around the island. full
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