16) REFERENCE PRICE
—The term ‘‘reference price’’, with respect to a covered commodity for a crop year, means the following:
(A) Wheat, $5.50 per bushel.
(B) Corn, $3.70 per bushel.
(C) Grain sorghum, $3.95 per bushel.
(D) Barley, $4.95 per bushel.
(E) Oats, $2.40 per bushel.
(F) Long grain rice, $14.00 per hundred-weight.
(G) Medium grain rice, $14.00 per hundredweight.
(H) Soybeans, $8.40 per bushel.
(I) Other oilseeds, $20.15 per hundred weight.
(J) Peanuts $535.00 per ton.
(K) Dry peas, $11.00 per hundredweight.
(L) Lentils, $19.97 per hundredweight.
(M) Small chickpeas, $19.04 per hundred weight.
(N) Large chickpeas, $21.54 per hundred weight.
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This is the Monsanto Clause
B) HYBRID SEED
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This is the Monsanto Clause
B) HYBRID SEED
—In determining whether a grower of hybrid seed is a producer, the
Secretary shall not take into consideration the existence of a hybrid seed contract; and
(ii) ensure that program requirements do not adversely affect the ability
of the grower to receive a payment under this title.
By scientific definition the difference between GM or GMO and Hybrids is the genetic engineering. Literally, genes can be grafted into crops without normal hybrid research or techniques.
This is from 2009. Technology has proven it cannot do better than Earth.
For years the biotechnology industry (click here) has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields.
That promise has proven to be empty, according to Failure to Yield, a report by UCS expert Doug Gurian-Sherman released in March 2009. Despite 20 years of research and 13 years of commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase U.S. crop yields.
There needs to be legal challenges to Monsanto to prevent them from receiving government subsidies. They are fraudulent in their practices. The term hybrid dose not apply to their seeds or methods.
The term “hybrid,” (click here) which you’ll often see in seed catalogs, refers to a plant variety developed through a specific, controlled cross of two parent plants. Usually, the parents are naturally compatible varieties within the same species. This hybridization, or the crossing of compatible varieties, happens naturally in the wild; plant breeders basically just steer the process to control the outcome. In contrast, GM varieties (sometimes called “genetically modified organisms,” or “GMOs”) are a whole different animal, as we’ll explain in a bit. First, some background on plant hybridization.
By scientific definition the difference between GM or GMO and Hybrids is the genetic engineering. Literally, genes can be grafted into crops without normal hybrid research or techniques.
This is from 2009. Technology has proven it cannot do better than Earth.
For years the biotechnology industry (click here) has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields.
That promise has proven to be empty, according to Failure to Yield, a report by UCS expert Doug Gurian-Sherman released in March 2009. Despite 20 years of research and 13 years of commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase U.S. crop yields.
There needs to be legal challenges to Monsanto to prevent them from receiving government subsidies. They are fraudulent in their practices. The term hybrid dose not apply to their seeds or methods.
The term “hybrid,” (click here) which you’ll often see in seed catalogs, refers to a plant variety developed through a specific, controlled cross of two parent plants. Usually, the parents are naturally compatible varieties within the same species. This hybridization, or the crossing of compatible varieties, happens naturally in the wild; plant breeders basically just steer the process to control the outcome. In contrast, GM varieties (sometimes called “genetically modified organisms,” or “GMOs”) are a whole different animal, as we’ll explain in a bit. First, some background on plant hybridization.
