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Refuge in the Bag: Will that be one bag or two?

Tags: Corn, Genuity, Optimum Acremax, Pioneer, Refuge, Seed, SmartStax

Seed companies—including Monsanto—have been developing the concept of “refuge in the bag,” or RIB for short, for a number of years now. The goal is to make refuge compliance for insect-protected (B.t.) crops easier and simpler for farmers.  Today, for most products, the U.S. EPA requires a corn farmer to set aside a percentage of land and plant a structured refuge. Read more...