date:Sep 18, 2013
ment said.
Alfalfa, a livestock feed crop, routinely ranks among the top five crops in the nation in terms of farmgate value and total acreage planted. It is the first perennial biotech crop to be approved, and its perennial nature makes it even more of a contamination risk, critics have charged.
Washington agriculture officials notified APHIS late Friday that they had confirmed a low-level presence of a genetically engineered trait in what the farmer thought was a non-GMO crop.
State agricul