Replies to post #11414 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[jbog]

There's something missing in that factoid. China maybe consumes 1/4 of the worlds production but that's about it.

I know about 50% of the worlds soybean ends up as cooking/ salad oil.

Brazil and U.S. are the leading producers, growing about 60% of the worlds supply.

[DewDiligence]

Factoid: MON screens more than million corn hybrids each year—using state-of-the-art genetic sequencing—in order to select the 100 or so new germplasm varieties to commercialize. (From Investor Day webcast.)