I still plant regular soybeans, tho last year & more this year, I have tried Liberty Link soybeans.
Don't have any love for that company, nor the others.
I'm not aware of China paying many royalties to anyone, including M? Glyphosate is out off patent, so it might be _easier/cheaper_ to buy some prtion from M, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Be interesting in 2 years, or is it 3, when the seed technology itself goes off patent, how that is going to be handled.
There actually is a yield drag on soybeans that are RR; but in the big picture, being able to contol weeds in soybeans leads to a better national yield. Same with corn - conventional herbicides work well, but being able to rescue a weedy field or plant earlier & spray later leads to less miserable weeds, higher national yields. I agree you can get a better yield from the regular stuff & better $$$ return on any given year. My $$$ comments were based on ag in the USA in whole. There becomes a benifit to consumers when weeds - and now insects - can be controlled more quickly, more cheaply, over a broader time fram.
You probably don't have to use expensive Stinger to control Canadian thistles in your cheap corn seed, because previous applications of glyphosate got rid of those patches. You don't have to use the very spendy & damaging soybean herbicides to control difficult broadleaves, because previous years of glyphosate have knocked them down....
I'm talking the big picutre over a decade, not an individual on any one year.
Farmers wouldn't buy the stuff if it didn't do something for them.
As time goes on, it seems to do less & less, and we will abandon it, and find something else. For now, it has helped a lot of folks eat a little cheaper.
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