As conventional dairy farmers who care deeply for the land and our cows, our stance on the benefits of GMOs (specifically, the crops we grow to feed our cows) is that advances in agricultural genetic engineering have made farming much more efficient and productive. These advances include keeping costly plant diseases and pests at bay, and reduce the need for pesticides. We are also able to improve our crop yields so that we can efficiently grow feed for our cows on less land and use less water than we did 20 years ago.