US study finds reduced numbers of crop-damaging pests on corn farms that adjoin those growing GM crops
Farmers growing conventional corn next to
GM crops can benefit from the reduction in crop-destroying pests without paying the premium for GM seeds, a new study has shown. The research, published today in the journal
Science, examined 14 years of records in the top US corn-producing states of Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin, looking at the prevalence of the
European corn borer, a moth whose caterpillars eat into corn stalks and topple the plants.
