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• W2993602260 abstract "It's mid-September and the 1999 harvest is just beginning in Clarkfield, Minn. Richard Kvols has been out and about the area and seen half a dozen combines in the fields already. The farmers, pushing the season just a tad, are after early soybeans and just starting on the corn. The corn isn't the top priority, notes Kvols (pronounced Coals) because it can stand some drying time yet. Farmers can even save a bit of money letting Mother Nature dry it down, says Kvols. The corn, wrapped in its tough husks, is relatively sheltered by now from any bad weather, whereas the soy crop is at its most vulnerable. At this stage, too much drying or too heavy a rainfall or a dose of hail can cause the beans to shell out, popping the ripe beans right out of their pods onto the ground, rendering a crop into compost material in minutes. Only a few days earlier, a corner of Clarkfield saw some soy-damaging hail. It's Kvols' business to know these things. At 53, he has spent virtually his entire life in the vicinity of Clarkfield, Minn., area. He still farms the family's 160-acre spread--big enough to keep my fingernails dirty and my wife unhappy--raising a rotation crop of corn, soybeans, alfalfa, and wheat, but his chief occupation for the last 15 years has been as county extension agent for Minnesota's Yellow Medicine County and four other adjacent counties. It's early yet for predictions for Clarkfield's harvest, but Kvols is already sure of one thing: There's no way we'll have yields like we had last year. This year we had three weeks of weather above 90 degrees. Farmers had been hoping for big yields to offset poor prices for most grains. On top of that there's now a third negative element facing many farmers in the area: the growing bias in both foreign as well as domestic markets against crops grown with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), that is, seeds developed through genetic tinkering. Kvols points to the late August announcement by Archer Daniels Midland, the giant food processor, that the world is getting picker--and that therefore it would, too. Farmers, farm bankers, and others are still assessing the impact of this and similar developments. Late-summer bombshell The announcement ran only three paragraphs under the neutral headline, ADM statement to suppliers regarding genetically enhanced crops. Here's how the cryptic advisory read: During recent months have been a series of news reports addressing the issues surrounding crops enhanced through biotechnology. As your trading partner, we want to alert you to a change we are experiencing in consumer demand. remains supportive of the science and safety of both biotech development and traditional plant breeding methods to improve crops and benefit consumers, ADM's processing business is driven by the consumer's desire to have choices. As a key link in the food supply system, we must produce products that our customers will purchase. Some of our customers are requesting and making their purchases based upon the genetic origin of the crops used to manufacture their products. if we are unable to satisfy their requests, they do have alternative sources for their ingredients. We encourage you as our supplier to segregate nongenetically enhanced crops to preserve their identity. [Italics adc ed.] While farmers have been aggravated over Freedom to Farm and related affairs for some time, it is harder to be angry at a law or even an entire Congress than to be mad at individual parties. Until this GMO thing came to light, says Kvols, there wasn't a scapegoat for us to vent our frustrations on. It's not just that farmers are mad at, points out Kvols. Three baby food maker--H.J. Heinz, Healthy Time Natural Foods, and Gerber--have announced that they will cease using crops enhanced through genetic technology. Kvols says farmers find the last company's presence on that list ironic, if not hypo-critical; Gerber is owned by Novartis AG, which counts, among its other business lines, the development and sale of genetically enhanced seed. …" @default.
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