The number of seed corn companies peaked in 1996 at 305 active companies, according to Schulze’s tally. That same year ushered in Roundup Ready soybeans and the following year Bt insect ...

Round-up Ready cotton was commercialized in 1997 ... the drought-tolerant trait they created has now been incorporated into corn seed available to U.S. farmers using genetic engineering techniques.

At the 2008 International Sugarbeet Institute show sugar beet farmers can hear a seminar from a group that put Roundup Ready sugar beet seed to the test last season. The show, now in its 46th year ...