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text: experimental gm crops from dow chemical and dupont fail to repel pests 
  sunday october   by ethan a huff staff writer tags herculex  yield guard  crop failures naturalnews the utter failure of geneticallymodified crops gmos is once again on full display this time with crop products made by companies other than the usual monsanto  a novel variety of transgenic corn produced and marketed by both dow chemical corporation and dupont is not exactly working as claimed new reports indicate and agricultural experts are urging the chemical industry to immediately cease selling these failed products to farmersknown as herculex the synthetic corn in question contains a gene modification thats supposed to prevent a pest known as the western bean cutworm from destroying crops but so far the genetic alteration has done nothing to stop this worm which means farmers everywhere have been paying through their teeth for a technology that not only doesnt work  but thats also proprietary and exceptionally costly especially when compared to nongmo and organic crops that are opensource and are not patented or owned by multinational corporationsa group of six entomologists published an open letter to the seed industry in a recent issue of purdue universitys pest  crop newsletter  calling on those involved to do the right thing and fess up to the fact that herculex doesnt work farmers will soon be gearing up to plant next years crops and they need to know that its best to look elsewhere for corn thats not going to result in massive yield reductionspeople are frustrated and angry and more importantly yield was lost the letter states before growers make seed choices for  we again urge the seed industry to acknowledge the reality of what is happening in the field dupont quietly admits herculex doesnt work but refuses to take responsibility in typical corporate fashion the owners of herculex are refusing to take the letter seriously resorting instead to excuses and legal speak to try to explain away the gm crops failure rather than pull the herculex product from the market dupont according to bloomberg  has instead decided to merely decreased its efficiency rating in the companys  product use guide from very good to moderatedupont has also issued an accompanying statement urging farmers to add other inputs to try to control cutworms including spraying additional chemical insecticides in other words herculex doesnt actually work and duponts solution is to have farmers just go ahead and blast away with all those endocrinedisrupting cancercausing chemicals to kill anything and everything that might be living on or around the crop its basically the same advice that monsanto is giving to farmers who foolishly adopted a similar gm corn product known as yieldgard that was supposed to deter the western corn root worm the insecticidal proteins in this crop product just like the one in herculex  known as cryf  havent lived up to all the wild marketing claims and yet both monsanto and duponts products continue to be sold to farmerscryf has failed in our states the letter continues adding that the scientists involved have already received dozens of calls and emails about the problem from concerned farmers for growers in our states the costs of scouting and spraying cryf corn negates a major reason they purchased and planted a hybrid with the trait in the first placeif left to run their course western bean cutworms and western corn root rooms will effectively eat up all the corn kernels and leave the plant defenseless encouraging the growth of harmful fungi and mycotoxins and since none of what the chemical industry has proposed as a solution is working their only recommended option is to spray more glyphosate dicamba d and other chemicals on their products sources for this article include