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May 31, 2013 Life Finds a Way With more and more farmers using genetically modified corn from Monsanto Company that resists plant-killing rootworm, the share of U.S. acreage treated with insecticide fell from 25% in 2005 to just 9% in 2010. But the rootworm has modified its genetics too. Insects resistant to the Monsanto corn appeared in 2011 and are now scattered across the Midwest. The development threatens to undermine one of the main benefits of genetically modified crops: that they reduce the need for chemical pest control, says the Wall Street Journal. SOURCE: Pesticides Make a Comeback

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