You would be tempted to take it. And that's why a lot of farmers embrace biotechnology. Not all of them, but a lot of farmers do, because they see it as something that will lower their cost and allow them to survive. Farmers are on a treadmill. That cotton farmer down there is part of a system where there's been over-production for years.
Prices are low.
The farmer's only response is to grow more, because prices are low, and the only way he's going to see his bottom line come out is if he produces more at that low cost. But everybody's doing the same thing. So everybody's producing more and the price goes down further. Then you look for another technology to allow you to produce more. What's not being accounted for is the whole environment, from the beneficial insects to the monarch butterflies that fly through, to the waterways that have to deal with what runs off his field. . . .