I don’t know WHAT this guy is ranting about.
I have ACRES of soybean around me as well as feed corn, wheat and alfalfa for hay. I have NEVER had a soybean just ‘pop up’ in my lawn or a garden bed...though I do have a few spots of alfalfa in the lawn - which the mule or a currently grazing steer appreciates!
And - Soybeans ARE NOT PERENNIALS. They are a legume. He said he’s going to plow that field under anyway for fruit trees and other crops and it will be GONE, never to return!
Alarmist, Much? And for what reason? Oh, I know! SCARY GMOs! Extra hits to his You-Tube Channel! *SMIRK*
Every vegetable or flower that ANY of us grow in our gardens, ‘Heirloom’ or not, ARE GMOs! It’s just that Mother Nature ‘genetically modified’ her plants to keep them thriving, so they call them, ‘Heirlooms’ And they can sell more seed packets!
18 years in ‘The Seed Biz.’ Ask me how it works. We’re selling the SIZZLE, Baby! NOT the STEAK! ;)
You can relax. You’re not going to be overrun by invasive soybeans...well, at least until Bill Gates gets a hold of them! :)
He said he talked to the previous owner from whom he bought the land and the guy told him that he had planted GMO soybeans.
So MIGardener said he couldn’t PROVE what he saw coming up was GMO but felt it was a high probability and doesn’t want it to spread. Especially since he’s trying to do his own seed saving.
And PLEASE don’t be offended that I disagree with this guy.
‘Seedless’ anything is a GMO product. Grapes and Watermelon come to mind first.
Also:
“When you bite into a juicy watermelon slice or munch on a handful of seedless grapes, it’s easy to assume that these fruits have always existed in their current form. But the truth is that many of our favorite fruits and vegetables have been selectively bred, hybridized, and genetically modified by humans over thousands of years. From the earliest days of agriculture to modern genetic engineering techniques, people have been tinkering with plants to make them tastier, sturdier, and easier to grow.”
And:
“There is no research to suggest that the nutritional composition of man-made fruits and vegetables is any less than that of food that is ‘naturally occurring.’ When plants are selectively bred, whether for a desirable characteristic, like shape, size, or color, there is no evidence that there is a dramatic decrease in the nutritional quality of the food as a result of that crossing.”
https://www.tastingtable.com/1241034/types-of-produce-you-didnt-know-were-man-made/
I have been in The Biz for a long time and I am all about production and disease and insect tolerance. Well, not so much in THIS AWFUL growing season because NOTHING seemed to work, but in general. ;)