In the long term, the southern district also face heavy crop losses since rice, beans and corn which were just about to be harvested, have been destroyed.

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Covering the largest area to be impacted since 1956, these conditions are taking a heavy toll on crop yields.

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Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and a host of other farm-heavy states have seen crop losses as a result.

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In the immigrant heavy farming industry, crop production employment dropped by 15.6 percent in the first 4 years after LAWA was passed.

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Inevitably the variety was planted in less-than-ideal spots, and the vines carried crop loads that were too heavy to ripen fully.

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But the activists are unsatisfied with heavy regulatory burdens that require nearly a decade of extensive environmental and consumer safety testing before a new GE crop can be put on the market, a phenomenon that has made it far too expensive to use the technology to improve any but the largest-scale commodity crops.

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