But critics say two thirds of the money goes to the richest 10 percent of farmers, and almost all of it goes to a handful of crops like corn, cotton and soybeans.
Monsanto has received U.S. Department of Agriculture approval for commercial sale of Bt strains of corn, potatoes and cotton.
Yet, as the National Academy of Sciences has noted, this method is far more unpredictable than inserting a single gene from another species, as was done to produce insect-resistant corn, soybeans and cotton.
Neonics are a new class of systemic pesticide popular in the US, Australia, Europe and elsewhere to help corn, soy, cotton and canola farmers.
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This year, fruit and vegetable farmers will be getting more of the help that growers of cotton and corn have had for decades.
Monsanto's seeds and genomics business increased 13% in the first quarter, led by increases in corn, soybean, cotton and vegetable platforms.
Economists don't expect many of the cotton farmers who had abandoned their traditional crop for others like corn to rush back into cotton and drive up the supply.
According to a JP Morgan report, commodities like corn, coffee, cotton and sugar are at their lowest stock-to-use ratios in decades.
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Across the South and lower Midwest, floodwaters have covered about 3 million acres of farmland, eroding for many farmers what could have been a profitable year for corn, wheat, rice and cotton, officials said.
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Across the South and lower Midwest, floodwaters have already covered about 3 million acres of farmland, eroding for many farmers what could have been a profitable year for corn, wheat, rice and cotton, officials said.
In the 1990s China was one of the first countries to approve some genetically modified cash crops, such as cotton and corn, and today China has more acreage devoted to growing GM crops than just about any other country in the world.
GMOs made up more than half the world's soya crop by area, a quarter of its corn and over a tenth of its cotton.
When the Stephen Whitney, an American sailing packet carrying cotton, corn, clocks and cheese, emerged from three days of dense fog in 1847, its captain got his bearings wrong and the vessel was smashed to pieces on the rocks near Fastnet.
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Porter, and he volunteered seventy acres of land where he had grown only cotton or corn for twenty-eight years, applied no fertilizer, and almost completely depleted the humus layer.
Favoured commodities such as corn (maize), wheat, soyabeans and cotton will receive a per-acre revenue guarantee of about 90% of the previous five years' returns.
It's made from a blend of cotton and a new polymer made from corn.
The note consists of futures of contracts of seven agricultural commodities (soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, soybean oil, coffee and sugar) and tracks the return of the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return Sub-Index.
But farmers devoted more cropland to corn and soybeans as prices of those commodities rose, and when the U.S. economy rebounded in 2009, cotton supplies started to pull tight.
As the domestic market shrank, thousands of cotton farmers in Mississippi and Lousiana switched to other crops such as corn and soybeans.
The most common Genetically Engineered crops are Corn, Soy, Canola, Sugar Beets, Cotton, Hawaiian Papaya, Alfalfa, and Squash (zucchini and yellow).
In the 16 months since Bernanke assured us that QE1 would not jeopardize price stability, oats prices are up 40%, concentrated orange juice up 45%, gold and rice up 50%, corn up 55%, coffee up 60%, copper up 70%, sugar up 90%, and cotton and silver up 100%!
It's a blend of cotton and polylactide, a polymer derived from dextrose, which can be cost-effectively made from corn.
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