Farm family grows modified corn for pharmaceutical purposes
Story Date: 7/7/2015

 

Source:  CORN & SOYBEAN DIGEST, 6/10/15


In your farming career, you have about 40 crops to get things right. Bill and Joe Horan were ahead of schedule in 2002 when they first grew pharmaceuticals in recombinant crops. The enterprise began with a shoebox-sized, triple-sealed container of corn representing one biotech company’s multi-million-dollar investment in genetic technology.

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