High Country News reports:
[...] Scotts got permission from the USDA to plant larger fields for seed production. Farmers sowed 80 acres of bentgrass in Canyon County, Idaho, and 420 acres in Jefferson County, Oregon, north of Bend. The Oregon Department of Agriculture picked the site - an irrigated island in the sagebrush sea - to keep the plant far from the Willamette Valley. There, on the western side of the mountains, farmers grow forage and turf grass for a $1 billion-a-year seed industry.
Then two windstorms swept through the eastern Oregon fields in August of 2013, scattering flea-sized seeds well beyond the designated control area. Roundup-resistant pollen fertilized conventional bentgrass plants as far as 13 miles away.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @01:45PM (2 children)
Some farmers grow grass as their crop, as mentioned in the article. Some farmers, such as the one interviewed for the article, are trying to grow other crops. To them this GMO grass is a weed--one they can't suppress with glyphosate. That's not good for the farmers, not good for Bayer/Monsanto, and not good for people who eat.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Spamalope on Monday July 02 2018, @02:21PM (1 child)
So we can nail Monstanto by developing roundup resistant weeds? Where do we start?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @02:31PM
> roundup resistant weeds
Already happening naturally, just like the internet, nature routes around it.