Yield Problems
New Report Challenges GM Industry Myths |
"The
report GMO
Myths and Truths is a detailed study covering everything from the genetic engineering
technique through to an analysis of the benefits of GM foods and crops. The report is
heavily referenced, allowing the reader to determine the validity of the authors’
conclusions. The section on GM crops’ impact on the farm and environment seriously
questions the benefits of growing these crops, citing examples of increased pesticide use, pest resistance, inconclusive yield
benefits and their value in feeding the worlds increasing population..... weighing in at over 120 pages ... it’s not the weight that
makes for uncomfortable reading but the detailed critique of many of the supposed benefits
of GM technology and the fact that these have all been brought together in one report.
What makes it even more difficult to ignore is the credentials of the authors concerned,
these are not your light-weight anti-everything tree huggers but acclaimed scientists. This should open up the debate at a high level on the benefits of
GM crops and be essential reading not just for policy makers. The questions raised in this
report are too numerous and serious to be simply disregarded." |
US farmers may stop planting GMs after poor
global yields |
Do GMO Crops Really Have Higher Yields? |
| Bt failure to hit cotton yield by 40%: Govt - Mumbai DNA (India), 26 November 2012 |
Review Bt
cotton, orders state govt |
Review Bt cotton, orders state govt |
| Cereals 2012: GM corn - not a 'panacea' Farmers Weekly, 14 June 2012 |
India loses faith in GM cotton |
| BT gene in GM crops harmful for growth Deccan Chronicle (India), 3 June 2011 |
| Glyphosate affects photosynthesis in first and second
generation of glyphosate-resistant soybeans Plant Soil 336, 251–265 |
A
study by the Union of Concerned Scientists has found that food and feed GM crops in the
United States have done little to improve crop yields with increases in production coming
from other plant breeding technologies (Bloomberg, 14 April 2009)
Poor
GM performance leads farmers in Brazil's top soy state to start returning to non-GM soya
varieties, but concerns are growing that high performance non-GM lines may not be made
available by seed companies in the future (Reuters, 13 March 2009)
Roundup Ready sugar beet has delivered a disappointing
performance in its first year of growing in the United States (Farmers Weekly, 6 February
2009)
GM
canola in Canada has not increased yields and costs more, and contamination of non-gm
crops means that growing the latter is no longer possible (Weekly Times, Australia, 26
February 2009)
GM
canola (oilseed rape) has yielded less than non-GM canola in Australian field trials
(Australian Associated Press, 16 January 2009)
Non-GM Cotton Just As Or
More Profitable As GM (American Society of Agronomy, 11 February 2008)
Problems
persist with inadequately tested Bt Cotton varieties in India - Financial Express, India,
5 June 2006
Inferior grain yields from Bt maize - Field Crops Research 93:
199-21, September 14, 2005
Seed
yields are down from US GM cotton varieties - Delta Farm Press 18 August 2005
Indian
state bans Bt cotton following poor agronomic performance - India News, May 2005
Brazil - GM soya yields hit hard in
drought conditions compared to conventional varieties
Crop failure and major
husbandry problems with Monsanto's Bt cotton in India
GM
crops under fire after Bt cotton venture fails in India
GM plants no panacea - Monsanto Admits to
Bt crop problems - New Scientist Report
USDA Report
Exposes GM Crop Economic Myths
'Welsh Farmer' - Flaws in GM crop trials -
Feb 2002
Disease hits RR
soy - Court awards large damages
Bt cotton
fails in Indonesia
Study
Questions Widespread Use of Bt Corn
Soya study casts doubt on GM decision
making process
Soya realities expose GM hype - yields down, pesticides up
Monsanto 'MAB' progress reinforces positive FAO world food
forecast
GM rape heading for agronomic scrap heap?
GM cotton growers hitting fibre
quality problems?
Glyphosate
treated GM soy regime impact on soil micro-organisms
Effect of RR soy
regime on nitrogen fixation
Low Yields from RR soya -
Nebraska University Study - Comments by NLP Wessex
Low
yields from GM soya - University of Nebraska
Sugar beet study exposes
media manipulation by GM industry
GM firm faked test
figures - herbicide resistant maize
GM Rape fails to perform as study reveals erroneous
basis for UK fieldscale trials
Why millions of acres of underperforming GM crops
are being grown in the USA
No yield or cost benefits from Roundup Ready Corn - University of
Kentucky Study
(Full RR corn
Kentucky report - pdf format - click here)
Low GM soya yields - Wisconsin study
short summary
Low GM soya yields - University of Wisconsin
More
GM cotton failures in 1998
Low yields from UK GM rape
and sugar beet crops - NIAB trials
Little benefit to farmers
from GM crops - Farmers Weekly
Monsanto approach to sustainability
Low yields from GM cotton
Monsanto's
GM soyabean hit by fungus outbreak
GM potato yields collapse
GM oilseed rape outperformed by traditional unmodified varieties
Monsanto pays millions in
compensation to US GM "Roundup-Ready" cotton growers
Cyanamid claim yield losses of up to $43 per acre with Monsanto's
GM Soya
Mississippi cotton farmers to sue
Monsanto for Roundup-Ready failures
Calgene Flavr Savr tomato
defective and withdrawn from market
GM
cotton crop failures
New
Scientist report on gm cotton failures
New York Times article on gm cotton
failures
Boll Drop
Problems in Roundup-Resistant GM Cotton
Performance
problems with Roundup Ready GM Cotton
Monsanto
GM soya defective in hot conditions - (see last item)
Organic soya outperforms
conventional soya in drought conditions
NLPWESSEX,
natural law publishing |