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new products
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"R. C. Chapin" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:33:08 -0500
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Reading article by Barnaby J. Feder in business section of NY Times 11 Feb
96, re. new products for farmers based on biotechnology.
He writes: "Farmers are expected to happily pay premium prices for corn
altered to produce its own insecticide against common pests like the
European corn borer.  Also reaching the market this year are soybeans
engineered to be resistant to common herbicides so that farmers have more
flexibility in how they use herbicides."
Anyone have info. re. the effect of these developments on honeybees?  Will
this affect feed corn as well as sweet corn?  We are surrounded here by
feed corn (not as much as in the past) and it is probably a major source of
pollen for our bees.
Richard Chapin
Montrose, PA
 
Richard C, Chapin
Lake Chrisann Road
RR1, Box 102A
Montrose, PA 18801

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