Today I’d like to tell you quite an interesting story of what goes on behind the scenes here as I cover the subject of agriculture and try to present readers with an informed view of reality based on science. Something happened in the past couple of days that felt routine to me in my news [...]
1. Crop and Pesticide Inputs. Pesticide Inputs Of the five crops, 53 percent of the pesticide total was applied to corn in 1982, followed by soybeans (28 percent), cotton (9.6 percent), fall potatoes (4.8 percent), and wheat (4.5 percent). Corn’s share declined to 43 percent in 2010, while fall potatoes’ share increased to 20 percent [...]
The study, “Impacts of genetically engineered crops on pesticide use in the U.S. — the first sixteen years” by Charles M Benbrook of Washington State University was published September 28th in peer reviewed “Environmental Sciences Europe 2012″. Reuters covered the report in this article: “Pesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires”. “Yes on [...]
