Adoption of
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The use of genetically engineered (GE) crops has greatly increased from 2000 to 2009. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) tracks the planting of GE soybean, corn, and cotton crops.
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The following series of illustrations show the growing adoption of all GE varieties of these crops over non-GE crops. While the size of the market share of all three crops grew dramatically, the corn and soybean crops grew to the size of the sixth and eighth largest states. However, the cotton planting decreased from 2000 to 2009
Sources: The USDA provides the data at the following website: www.ers.usda.gov/Data/BiotechCrops/ The data’s source is the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s (NASS) reports on Acreage.
Circles Represent Size of Area Planted with GE Crops
For the statistics from 2000, go to the website: usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/nass/Acre//2000s/2001 /Acre-06-29-2001.pdf Acreage: Corn, pg 5; Soybean, pg 14; Cotton, pg 18. Percent GE: Corn, pg 24; Soybean, pg 25; Cotton, pg 25. For the statistics from 2009, go to the website: usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/nass/Acre//2000s/2009 /Acre-06-30-2009.pdf Acreage: Corn, pg 5; Soybean, pg 14; Cotton, pg 18. Percent GE: Corn, pg 24; Soybean, pg 25; Cotton, pg 25.
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Rank of Area Planted If it was a State
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90% & Above 70 to 89% 50 to 69% Below 50%
Map designed by Louis Umerlik on April 12, 2010, for foodpolitics.com Data provided by USDA & NASS. State boundaries provided by ESRI.