The wild eyed tree huggers don't even know the difference between GMO corn and BT corn. Without going into details, GMO is a genetically modified organism modified to resist a certain herbicide. A BT ( Bacterial? Thur--- I don't know the rest of the word) plant kills insects that eat on that plant. They claim BT kills Monarch butterflies that eat on milkweeds that have cross pollinated with BT corn. Haven't heard that claim now for awhile.
One of my sisters-in-law, who farms with her husband, is a health nut who is down on 'BT' corn. She was telling me the corn isn't BT till Glypho is sprayed on it, then the corn is 'BT'. THIS IS THE MISINFORMED ATTITUDE OF THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE, EVEN THE FARM WIFE!!!!!
I told her Glyphosate has nothing to do with BT. GMO corn is bred to resist Glyphosate and it is already GMO before Glypho is sprayed on it.
She was telling me my irritable bowel syndrome was caused by this 'BT' in the food we eat. I've had this problem since childhood, for Pete's sake!! That was long before this new poisonous corn was developed. Jim
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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