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Farm family grows modified corn for pharmaceutical purposes

2015-06-10 22:57:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Bill Horan grows recombinant pharmaceutical proteins in crops using sunlight, soil, water, and air as raw materials. This family farm has grown modified corn, tobacco, rice and potatoes that produce medically valuable drugs and enzymes. The high-profit, highly regulated farm enterprise diversifies them from low-margin commodity crops. (They also grow commodity corn.) So, three of us make a living from about 4,000 acres of corn, Bill Horan says. read more

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