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Article: Gene Research Promising for Farmers
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- July 16, 1999
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STEVE GEISSINGER, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
07-16-1999
Gene Research Promising for Farmers
WILLOWS, Calif. (AP) -- Judy Brown gazes over her 240 acres of flowering cotton plants with a worried expression on her face.
No wonder. Threats to the third-generation farmer's crop between now and the October harvest include weeds, bugs, a lack of water, bad weather -- and, for the first time in years, sagging cotton prices.
``I'm hoping. That's what farmers do. They hope,'' said Brown, the 53-year-old co-owner of Finch Ranch, a patchwork 2,400 acres of various crops in Glenn County in the northern Sacramento Valley.
Her hopes are buoyed by researchers' genetic engineering efforts that ...