"Results in this study demonstrate that GMO strategies use available information, extract and transform it through resource investments that are not compensated by energy-efficient results, and this trend are likely to increase due to ecosystem reaction. Moreover, resources invested into a process that stores information in seed that does not maximize power is counterproductive, and this singular approach reduces opportunities to explore other patterns and alternative plant breeding and production system strategies that may provide more consistent and sustainable system performance in the long term."
Paul Hixson Collection., Reports on a speech by representatives of the American Soybean Association expressing concern about resources being directed by the U.S. Agency for International Development toward aiding foreign competitors. They suggested changing emphasis of government programs from helping other countries grow more soybeans to helping them use more soybeans.
USA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11770
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Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that more than 90 percent of corn, soybean, and cotton acreage involves herbicide-resistant varieties. Currently, 92 percent of U.S. cotton acres are planted with genetically-engineered, insect-resistant seeds and 83 percent of U.S. corn acres.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10581
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306 pages., PhD dissertation in agricultural economics, Texas A&M University, College Station. Only the abstract stored in ACDC., Via database., Results indicate the soybean checkoff program has been highly effective over the study period returning $6.9 in revenue to soybean producers for every checkoff dollar spent.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: C10311
Journal Title Details:
Staff paper P88-27
Notes:
Staff Papers are published without formal review within the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, Staff Papers of University of Minnesota
