date:Jul 18, 2018
953,640 GMO acres at the same 92% rate.
For 2018, farmers planted 2% of their acres to insect-only resistant GMO varieties of corn (including bacillus thuringiensis [Bt] only) compared with 3% in 2017, 10% to herbicide-only resistant varieties compared with 12% last year and 80% to stacked varieties (containing both insect and herbicide resistant genes), up from 77% in 2017.
Of the 13 states listed, the greatest increases in GMO acres were in Ohio, up four percentage points to 86%, and Illinoi