BLOWN PROFITS GENETIC DRIFT AFFECTS MORE THAN BIOLOGY - US FARMERS STAND TO LOSE MILLIONS

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 8, 2001| Author: Anthony Shadid, Globe Staff | Copyright information

WASHINGTON - Susan and Mark Fitzgerald have farmed for 17 years on the black soil of the Minnesota prairie, a place "where the wind likes to blow." They took all of the precautions they thought necessary to make sure their 100 acres of corn was organic, a tag that can double the earnings on their yield.

The husband-and-wife team set up barriers of bushes, shrubs, and trees, planted the right crops in the right places, and bought corn seed guaranteed to be free of genetic engineering.

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