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GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon

posted by martyb on Monday July 02 2018, @11:17AM   
from the just-wait-until-the-Ents-get-loose dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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• Re:Told you soRe:Told you so (Score: 3, Funny) by tangomargarine on Monday July 02 2018, @03:38PM (1 child)

  by tangomargarine (667) on Monday July 02 2018, @03:38PM (#701412)

  no additive

  straight from my tap

  How did you get the fluoridation out?

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• Re:Told you so(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @06:40PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @06:40PM (#701521)

  Well, no additives by me. Anything that was there when it came out of the tap doesn't count. We are talking about deceptive marking anyway so why not?

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