The only people who really seem to benefit are the farmers who grow the crops and seed companies who provide the seeds, while there are environmental risks that affect us all.
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Farmers in Goa last year found they spent 70 percent less on seed with SRI to grow up to twice as much rice.
The purpose was to "seed" the synthetic windpipe -- as you would seed a new lawn -- to grow on the structure.
While in Decorah, the President will be at the Seed Savers Exchange to discuss ways to grow the economy, strengthen the middle class and accelerate hiring.
But most of seed fell in places where there was no chance they would grow, or was swept up and stolen.
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Although the plant springing forth from that seed is healthy and can go about its business of producing grain, say, quite normally, the grain that it produces will not grow if planted, because the activated terminator gene has killed off the seed's reproductive bits.
Monsanto, according to its petition, dominates the soybean seed market and its "Roundup Ready" variety is used to grow about 90 percent of the nation's crop for the estimated 275, 000 American soybean farmers like Bowman.
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