The Foodie Farmer: GMO vs NonGMO: 2015 Cost of Production Update

(Before It's News)

This is an update of my earlier blog entitled “GMOvs NonGMO: The Cost of Production. Earlier this year when the National Academies of Science announced their Genetically Engineered Crop Study, and questioned some of the yield benefits, I tweeted that I would update this blog. Yesterday, I got a call from Michigan State University asking for the update because they were reviewing it with a group of foreign agriculturalists who wanted “real world” data from a real farmer. So that is my impetus for updating this blog. We are between crops right now so I had the time to push the numbers for 2015…

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