GM Soy Doesn't Produce Higher Yields

Easier growing and a higher yield are just two of the purported benefits of genetically modified crops, but a Greenpeace report suggests Monsanto's GM soya isn't living up to the promise.

Beginning in the late-1990s, studies were showing that Monsanto's Roundup Ready soya was experiencing a 'yield drag'—and in the last four years alone, Greenpeace estimates the yield drag has cost American farmers more than $11 billion. And Monsanto's next generation of GM soya has other problems.

A 1999 study led by Charles Benbrook, a former science adviser for the U.S. government, found an average yield drag of 5.3 percent . . .

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