Way before Bt corn came out, I was looking at a garden center for something to kill insects in my garden. The person who waited on me could best be described as a long haired, hippy type, tree hugger. He almost insisted I buy their "organic" bug killer which was Bt. I later did some research on it and started paying attention. All the Organic crowd was ga-ga over the beneifts of Bt cause it was "natural"
So which is it gonna be? It was great back then. but now that farmers are using that same technology in a different fashion, now its bad?
As for stalks being tougher, I do crop adjusting work in Mo, Arkansas, Oklahoma and some in Kansas. I have noticed the corn is not standing near as well as it use to, so I would say the stalks trend to be weaker now.
I remember my dad saying that my grandpa and some of the old timers said that wheat that was combined with a combine, and not put up in shocks and dried in the field was no good for flour. People get funny ideas.
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