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Is Monsanto's corn losing its "magic?"
Posted on December 10, 2011 - 11:05 by David Gomez
Monsanto’s genetically modified corn may be losing its ability to kill rootworms. To be sure, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes the poison spliced into Monsanto Bt corn is not as effective as it once was.

According to Businessweek, rootworms in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska may be developing a tolerance for the insecticide in Monsanto Bt corn. This is hypothesis is based on documented cases of severe crop damage and reports from entomologists.
 
The EPA voiced the above-mentioned concerns in an internal report that was eventually posted on its website on Nov. 22, which, interestingly enough, was not published as a traditional press release.

Curiously, visitors to the EPA website have to specifically know what they are looking for if they wish to locate the report - which terms Monsanto’s method of tracking  pesticide resistance cases "inadequate."

Monsanto (Still) Denies Superinsect Problem, Despite Evidence
—By Tom Philpott| Thu Dec. 8, 2011 4:00 AM PST
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A corn rootworm: You call it Smartstax, I call it breakfast. imarsman/Flickr
Back in August—as I reported here—something strange began to happen in isolated Iowa corn fields: Otherwise healthy corn plants were falling over, their roots devastated by a ravenous insect called the corn rootworm.