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: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 02 2018, @02:56PM
When it becomes an invasive exotic and disrupts wild ecosystems (more than ordinary crops already do), yeah, it's worse.
These things are generally designed to be hardier than normal crops, so if they succeed in that goal then when they get out in the wild they are worse.
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