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08/10/11 3:54 PM

#124966 RE: jellybean #124963

…the effort of maintaining the correct hybrid traits requires laborious destassling [sic]…

Actually, MON has a product candidate in phase-3 called RHS that makes detasseling unnecessary.

The reason farmers are locked into buying this from Monsanto is two-fold.

Commercial corn varieties from all major vendors use hybrid seed—no one is locked into buying from MON.