Activists at the Center for Food Safety and the Sierra Club argued in federal court that sugar beets improved to resist the herbicide glyphosate might result in the development of superweeds or might interbreed with organic chard and regular beets... Sugar beets are the source of half the sugar produced in the U.S. Biotech sugar beets were approved as safe for growing by the USDA five years ago. The frankenbeets at issue in this case are now so popular with farmers that they constitute 95 percent of the current crop. In fact, there may not be enough conventional seeds to replace biotech seeds for next year's planting.And this hurts farmers because the price of sugar will go up, and, uh, hey, wait a minute...
This hurts farmers because there isn’t anywhere near enough NON GMO seed to make up for the sequestering of GM seed.
Besides which, if you think the FARMER is the one to profit from a shortfall in any commodity, you are woefully ignorant as to how markets work, even though you’ve been here for years.
It’s not the actual PRODUCER that gains the greatest benefit from their labours, it’s the MIDDLEMAN, closely followed by the government. If there is a 90% jump in the price of sugar, you can bet that the farmer will see no more than a 5% increase in his income. Just look at the way commodities futures have worked from day one.