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wparrott wrote:

Here are some differences that I could think in 5 minutes
the GM scenario would have a large number of crop varieties or even a
large
number of crops with several genes in common. In conventional seed
production
there is variety. Genes that dictate the use of one chemical (a
chemical that
by the way is not friendly to certain organisms of the soil, and a
chemical
that stays for very long in the soil clay structure and a chemical
that is
difficult to analyze and detect). Conventional crops require different
practices (chemical or mechanical) to maintain a reduced pest and weed
populations.

By mechanical, you mean plowing? That is the worst thing one can do to
soil. Not only does it promote erosion, it destroys organic matter, and
disrupts all soil organisms.


mechanical weed control is sometimes even required in some crops!
not only kills weeds but it put soil where the roots need it!

Please provide an example.


Also, if you have real information on glyphosate being harmful to soil
organisms, please share it.

read the fine print in your Roundup container.

It is far less harmful than tillage or any other heribcide since it binds
very tightly with clay paricals. Even dirty water inacivates it.

Do your home work on the alternitives. See the difference in conventional
tillage and no till and reduced tillage on two farms after a week of rain.
http://www.couger.com/farm/




The use of that one chemical implies a series of cultural practices
that
affect the soil fauna and flora. Multiple pesticides implies that at
least
some area is not affected by unintended chemical effects.

While it guarantees that the other areas are affected by unintended
effects.

Had the fellow that farms my wife's place had his no till in place he
wouldn't have lost 10% of his cotton in a wind storm in front of thunder
storm last week in west Texas. The damage of tillage is well know and real.
Until now we had little other choice with most crops. No till is the only
method of farming that restores organic matter and invertebrate live to the
soil to anything that approaches the levels of native sod. There may be some
unexpected findings but we can find it on the soil that is still on the farm
not in the Gulf of Mexico.

Gordon