Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about one of Monsanto’s latest technology innovations, biotech sweet corn, or what we call Seminis Performance Series™ Sweet Corn. It has the potential to create sustainable improvements in sweet corn farming through the better use of resources and less reliance on pesticides.

Although this is a new product for Monsanto’s vegetable seed brand, Seminis®, for more than a decade farmers have been growing biotech sweet corn produced by another seed company with the beneficial, built-in protein (from Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt) that naturally occurs in the environment. This protein protects the … Full Article »