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Via Iowa State University's Center for Crops Research Utilization by way of the National Corn Grower's Association: a giant infographic showing every thing under the sun made with corn.
So-called Bt corn went on sale in the late 1990s. It has been astonishingly effective against the European corn borer, a common pest. But from the beginning, scientists worried that biotech ...
Until Bt corn was genetically altered to be poisonous to the pests, rootworms used to cause billions of dollars in damage to U.S. crops. Named for the pesticidal toxin-producing Bacillus ...