Soylent....
It usually refers to the hybrid of corn planted in that field.
To expand... The seed company plants different hybrids in different fields. They are trying to develop, through engineering, better types of corn (or what ever plant they are growing). For instance they will try to develop hybrids that are more resistant to drought, weavils, disease...., or corn that produces more yield per acre. If successful, the company (dekalb, Pioneer, Pfister's...) will plant sell the seeds to farmers to plant entire fields of the corn.
By the way, we are not talking sweet corn here - the kind you eat - we are talking about field corn - the kind you make products such as corn sweetner... out of or sell to feed for livestock.
I'd think there's some GMO research going on..??
Those are all names of alien space ships.....
They are also trying to develop crops such as soybeans which are resitant to the most effective herbicides so that they can spray the field and kill ALL the weeds without killing the crop.
Those signs are a form of advertising. If your crops look good, then maybe another farmer will want to plant that type of seed.
I think it has something to do with the UN and black helicopters.
Seed companies brag about their test plot results. Google the name of the compnay and 'test plot' and you'll find more than you want to know!
they grow in bio-engineered circles to confuse and amaze Art Bell listeners.
At the end of the season the testers harvest each strip and calculate that varieties yield for the record which may be public and then can be had for the asking from your State Ag University.
You have *seen* the X-Files, right? ;')
In the movie Andromeda Strain they were used to hid a secret goverment grem research lab.
The casual references to "hybrids" remind me of a scene in a Disney movie. Many of those test plots are indeed sown with genetically hybridized plants. Don't think that the two species are even related all of the time. Success has been found in splicing cold-resistance genes from deep-sea creatures into the corn that feeds the steer that you ate for supper last night.