\nLow commodity soybean prices, attractive premiums, and rising prices for genetically modified soybean seed are leading American farmers to plant more acres of non-GMO soybeans this year.\n\nRepresentatives with soybean associations, universities, and grain buyers all say that demand for non-GMO soybeans is growing, leading to more non-GMO acres.\n<\/blockquote>\nIt seems Monsanto may be pricing itself out of its own market:\n
\nBesides the higher non-GMO premiums, there are other reasons for the increasing acreage of non-GMO this year. One is lower cost. \u201cThe Roundup Ready system is not as cheap as it used to be,\u201d Shannon says.\n\nThe cost for Monsanto\u2019s Roundup Ready GM soybean seeds has increased from $35 to $50 per bag while the cost for Roundup herbicide has increased from $15 to $50 per gallon. \u201cA lot of farmers are upset with Monsanto,\u201d Shannon says.\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd organic demand is having an effect:\n
\nThe organic food industry is also spurring demand for non-GMO soybeans, says Craig Tomera, production agronomist\/crop production manager at Northland Organic Foods. \u201cOrganic food companies are switching to non-GMO soybeans until prices for organics drop and the economy improves.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\nAll that and mutant pigweed that Roundup doesn’t kill.<\/a>\nSo without even considering externalities (such as\nmutated frogs and human birth defects),\nit may be becoming less cost-effective for farmers to buy Monsanto.\nSo sad.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Laskawy wonders in Grist about Peak Monsanto? Quoting The Organic & Non-GMO Report: Low commodity soybean prices, attractive premiums, and rising prices for genetically modified soybean seed are leading American farmers to plant more acres of non-GMO soybeans this year. Representatives with soybean associations, universities, and grain buyers all say that demand for non-GMO […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[2762,902,15,1631,173,376,179,2767],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","tag-agrochemicals","tag-gmo","tag-monsanto","tag-northland-organic-foods","tag-organic","tag-pigweed","tag-roundup","tag-soybeans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-7W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}