Arizona farmers who grow genetically modified cotton can skip some of their usual insecticide spraying. Those crops have the same impact on crawling insects and the same yield as unmodified cotton does, according to a field study.
COTTON CHECK. A cotton boll, broken open, reveals a pink bollworm, one of the top three cotton pests in Arizona.
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