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They were known as CROISOR and GENESIS which came out again in the commercial market. Even though the wheat hybrids were commercialized, they were not popular among the farmers of this age. There are multiple advantages to... ... middle of paper ... ...of DuPont says, “If we are going to feed 9 billion people by 2050, we are going to need to improve productivity for farmers everywhere”. Syngenta expects to bring the first commercial hybrid wheat to farm fields across the U.S. by 2020. Rollie Sears, a long time researcher, says, "It will offer a significant yield bump to growers and it will have good end use qualities.

They also realized that if they left the soil for a year with no plants, these important nutrients would replenish. So they started to leave half of a field fallow (unplanted). They then discovered that they could use legumes, or pulses to restore these vital nutrients, such as nitrogen, to the soil and this started the process known as rotating crops. They would plant half the field one year with a legume... ... middle of paper ... ...ural land to produce soybeans, and manioc for export to feed cattle. As you can see the real cause of hunger is the lack of access to food, not the lack of food itself.

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Bethany Alvarez, 2/26/14 Modern American Agriculture: It’s Effects on Crops and Farmers Corn has always been an essential to American agriculture. Yet the corn grown by our ancestors is unlike the corn we grow today; corn has changed in its quality, quantity, usage, and its inherent compromise. The age of industrialization provided new technology and techniques for farming. Agriculture became modernized in response to increased demand in the job and food markets. However, farming is no longer a way of life but a business.

Being a product of genetical engineering, Potrykus's product was entangled in a web of hopes, fears, and political baggage. Until now, genetically engineered crops were created to resist insect pests or to control the growth of weeds by using herbicides. However, in this circumstance the genetically engineered rice not only benefits the farmers who grow it, but primarily the consumers who eat it. These consumers include at least a million children who die every year because they are weakened by vitamin-A deficiency and an additional 350,000 people who go blind. In addition to this concern, there is another.

Studies have shown that the family farms take care of the soil and put back the nutrients they use. There are different anti-corporate farming laws around the country that are trying to protect the small family farming industry. ?Contrary to misinformation, the world?s embattled small farms are two to ten times more productive per unit than large, tax-subsidized and chemical based operations run by corporate agriculture? (Earth Island Journal, 2000). Many people agree that the larger corporate farms are producing more, but studies show that small farms are more productive because they keep the soil usable for longer periods of time.

At the same time, business was leaning how to profit from selling seeds. They learned to create hybrids whose seeds were useless to farmers in the next season. Any natural variation that might occur from these already inbred hybrids was squashed by the farmers who purchased new seeds rather than be surprised by the old, as new equipment demanded consistency. Due to the rise to the rise of industry, and it’s requirements for uniform texture, growing patterns, and long shelf life, the number of varieties found in markets steadily decreased. While there are over 7,000 useful species of plants in our food supply, the agricultural markets have gravitated towards 150 that are heavily relied upon.

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