Don’t genetically engineered crops have higher yields?
NO. A number of other studies contradict industry claims that crops have higher yields. Ed Oplinger, for example, Professor of Agronomy at the University of Wisconsin, has been conducting performance trials for soybean varieties for the past 25 years. His comparison of yields in the 12 states that grow 80 per cent of the soybeans in the United States show that, on average, the yields of genetically engineered soybeans were 4 per cent lower than conventional varieties. Quote by Bill Christison, President of the US National Family Farm Coalition: “…we found GMO seed actually produces a lower yield because of the varieties that had been altered. The acceptance of GMO’s by the US farmer is predicated by the fact that farmers are hard pressed to survive financially, and have become acclimated to the idea that new technology is good technology.
