Genetically-engineered rice would have meant great things for area farmers

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Editor's note: Farmer David Herbst was going to grow Missouri's first-ever genetically modified rice for Ventria Biosciences before a deal was brokered to move the project out of Southeast Missouri.

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