
USDA: Farmers Continue to Adopt Biotech Crops across the U.S.
July 20, 2012 |
The USDA Economic Research Service released its annual report on the adoption of herbicide tolerant and insect resistant crops. Based on the USDA survey data, there has been a substantial growth in the amount od biotech soybeans, corn, and cotton planted in the U.S. The acreage of herbicide tolerant soybeans increased from 17 % of the US soybean acreage from in 1997 to 93 percent in 2012. Plantings of herbicide tolerant corn raised from 10% of the U.S. acreage in 1997 to 80 percent in 2012. On the other hand, plantings of insect resistant Bt corn grew from 8% in 1997 to 67% in 2012 while Bt cotton plantings increased more swiftly from 15 percent in 1997 to 77% in 2012.
For more details, view http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us.aspx.
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