Jeff- It is GMO seed. The steady yield climb is due mainly to genetics....more drought resistant genes, genes that are resistant to certain insects and chemicals. Very tolerant to chemicals that would normally harm the crop...actually allowing LESS chemical application. Another reason for yields going up is the satellite monitoring of every acre of ground ..what its yield was last crop...and this is fed into the fertilizer applicators that are computer controlled to spurt out more fertilizer on the leaner yielding acres, and save fertilizer in the premium yielding acres. This maximizes savings per acre....and the size of dads farms, this results in thousands of dollars saved. Lean, efficient farming with super genetics....

You can't believe everything you hear on TV. The liberals are out there shouting at Monsanto while the American farmer is far out in the lead for feeding the world, increasing total USA on production on an ever decreasing number of acres......and doing it with far less fuel per acre......making our so called carbon footprint smaller.

I farmed for 15 years for my dad, but just never appreciated having a farm operation given to me....and I wasn't interested in farming anyway. So, to my dads disappointment I went and made my own shadow. It took dad about 3 years to realize I wasn't coming back to the farm and that he then realized I made the best choice for myself.

Dad was hard to work for as we both were independent as hell.....

But now my sister and I will be the stewards of the farm ground my dad worked so hard for buying.

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You and my wife would not get along at all. She is on Monsanto like a tick on a dog.
It's GMO this and GMO that. She believes they are the cause of so many illnesses despite the fact people are living longer.

GMO is a double edged sword, it has some good, but also bad, yes it increases the yield and makes crops more drought resistant etc. BUT by combining the dna of other plants and animals, yes animals, you are creating foreign protiens that the body does not recognize, and this has been linked to autoimune diseases.
If the plant is able to produce its own pesdicide, where do you think that pesdicide goes when you eat it? Same with chicken and beef being fed hormones, antibiotics, tranquilizers etc.

Ray, this is the first generation to have a shorter lifespan than their parents...Girls as young as 8 years old are starting puberty.
More peole than ever are getting Chrones disease, ! in 60 children are autistic, 20 years ago it was 1 in 6000...
Like anything else follow the money. And the lobbyists.

This interests Me very much and I have been doing my research over the last year + since I was diagnosed with a digestive condition.

Do not misunderstand me, I am not a liberal save the planet alarmest, But 50 years ago the food we ate was not the food we eat today.

I also do believe that we have way too many undesired effects of the chemical misuse and the genetic mess ups.
THings that we manipulate because we know just enough to be dangerous.
But the same thing had happened with medicine when they started experimenting back when.
Today we look at some of that stuff and ask ourselves "what were they thinking?".
Soooo what we experiment with today can have adverse effects that we have no way of foreseeing right now.
I am also an eyewitness to thimerosal triggered autism.
A perfectly healthy baby 3 hours after the shot went into a total system shut down.
I would never let them give a baby the "convenience" shot.
In Europe you take your kid for the Di/Per/Te 3 different times and there is no one inclusive shot.
I also find it interesting how the media had attacked the character of Jenny McCarthy instead of attacking the claims of hers.
They still haven't provided one single independent (not pharmaceutical sponsored or conducted) study about thimerosal's mercury content and it's health effects on newborn babies with 0 immune system.

No I sad 3 hours later the baby went into a total system shut down.
He stopped breathing. And suffered from lack of oxygen to his brain.
You don't have to believe me ask my wife.
There was nothing wrong with that baby.
Nothing for 3 months. After the shot he became a vegetable.
Undeniable fact that we witnessed.
The hospital didn't know what to do but asked about the vaccine he was injected with.
They did have that look on their face as if this wasn't the first time they were seeing shit like that.
Call as many BS on it as you wish it doesn't change the fact.
It has happened exactly as I wrote it.

I would love to see some real data coming from China.
If anywhere in the world that would be the perfect study case.
Their pollution is so extreme it would be a real indicator if there is really carbon based pollution to be blamed for anything.
But than again we exhale carbon
So once the EPA declared our "exhaust" as a pollutant....you see where I am going with this?
The answer to why people are blaming Big Pharma?
Do you think that lawyers have anything to do with it?????