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| Despite commodity prices, non-GMO should be a heavier market. Their is no yield difference, despite what a fear-of-loss salesman will tell you. Sourcing non-GMO hybrids is getting more and more difficult every year due to the margins for the trait companies being lower. I work with a breeding company in Southern Illinois, breeding non-GMO inbreds and we control johnson grass and fall panicum in non-GMO inbred fields. We don't have the benefit of canopy with inbreds. We control all pests with applications of insecticide. I say that to say, if we can grow and control weeds and pests in non-GMO inbred fields, controlling them in a hybrid field is very doable. Generally, non-GMO hybrids yield more than GM hybrids due to yield drag from trait insertion. The plant has to express the trait, taking energy from the plant during translocation of sugar to starch in the ear. | |
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Traited vs non-traited corn
