Kim slaps down GMO ban

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csgray, the rust or whatever it was on the mainland was the reason your cornseed was being (and still is) grown here, originally by Trojan, and now a few co's grow corn seed. In the early 1970s, our state govt, through the UH, attempted to grow a major corn crop to replace sugar which was going out. The contract would have bought every seed we could produce, but with the UH in charge it was a dismal failure, and for a reason the advisors from the mainland had warned them, plant cross to the wind, not with it like sugar cane. Long story short, the profs prevailed over these mainland advisors, they don't even have degrees.
Needless to say, the pollen all went between the rows, and a bushel put out like 10 seeds. On Oahu, a large corn outfit is harvesting a few thousand acres a year for seed. Keep the UH out of the mix and things will work. That was called Kohala Task Force, and lost millions.