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BETTING THE FARM ON BIOTECHThe sun beats down on green fields of corn that have never seen chemical insecticides or weed killers. Over the ridge, docile Holsteins are producing more milk on less feed than has ever before been possible, and piglets are growing into lean adults at uncommon speed. The air is free of dust from eroding topsoil and a stream drains the gentle slopes, its waters as sweet and pure as a mountain spring. Supermarkets are jammed with the bounty of a skillful, careful farming that is as safe as it is productive.
This is the agricultural landscape of the 21st century as envisioned by Howard A. Schneiderman, senior vice president of research and development and chief scientist at the Monsanto Company. In the past decade the St. Louis-based chemical manufacturer has invested over $800 million - more than any other company in the world - in agricultural biotechnology, the business of altering plants, animals and microbes by artificially mixing and matching their genes. It is the 63-year-old Schneiderman, a Manhattan-raised scientist who learned his farming from textbooks, who has set Monsanto on a course that could forever change how food and fiber are produced. ''Monsanto is developing a way to use Mother Nature to modify organisms to serve us better,'' says Schneiderman, whose favorite word for the technology is ''fantastic." |
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