Largest Brazil soy state loses taste for GMO seed

Awesome. Organic ftw.

It seems to me you are the one spew rhetoric with out prof. And I am not talking about growing a garden I am talking about growing crops for a living. I have nothing against sustainable agriculture after all only a fool would deplete his own land. If you like organic I have nothing against it, but don't kid yourself and think you are saving the planet.

Yes, I have helped to grow crops and they weren't from a test tube.And sustainable agriculture does not do what you say, it actually enhances the soil. The only fools are those like you who think you can spew some rhetoric without proof here like Monsanto does and we are just supposed to believe you. The majority of the world knows what they are about. And I also think the farmers in Brazil know more about their own crops than you do. Have fun eating your poison.

I can tell you first hand that GMO seed has greatly increased efficiency and yields. I will be planting all roundup ready corn and beans this year. My neighbor who farms organic has to cultivate his crops several times to control weeds. Over the season this practice burns large quantities of fuel, something else you want to do away with, you cant have it both ways Jan. You are advocating against something you know very little about. Glyphosate herbicides biodegrad within a week. As for weed resistance you must alternate to different GMO every other year. Monsanto is not the only company offering GMO traits. From where I sit you look like a fool. You have no idea what you are talking about. Have you ever grown crops?

good for them,

From the article

SORRISO, Brazil (Reuters) - Farmers in Brazil's Mato Grosso, the country's top soy state, are shunning once-heralded, genetically modified soy varieties in favor of conventional seeds after the hi-tech type showed poor yields.

"We're seeing less and less planting of GMO soy around here. It doesn't give consistent performance," said Jeferson Bif, who grows soy and corn on a large 1,800 hectare farm in Ipiranga do Norte, near the key Mato Grosso soy town of Sorriso.

He said he obtained average yields of 58 bags (60 kg) per hectare with conventional soy last season while fields planted with GMO soy in the same year yielded 10 bags less.

Growers began illegally using genetically modified varieties of soy even before Brazil passed a biosafety law around four years ago permitting their use, in the hope of gaining higher yields and reducing production costs.

Around half of Mato Grosso's soy is estimated to be genetically modified but the tide is turning against it.

Part of farmers' disappointment over the performance of the modified soy may stem from misunderstanding of the specific conditions in which its altered characteristics can bring rewards.

Uptake of GMO soy was fast in the state Rio Grande do Sul because of its resistance to glyphosate, which is used to kill the weeds that flourish there. But this feature is much less useful in Mato Grosso, where weeds grow much less thickly.

Farmers in Mato Grosso also benefit from better support from cooperatives and government bodies which provide advice and technical assistance and help them maximize yields even with conventional soy.

Another reason for Mato Grosso's ongoing shift away from GMO-soy is that trading houses and meat processors, conscious that some consumers strive to avoid GMO foods, prefer conventional soy and will pay a premium for it.