@article{Hategekimana:28021,
      recid = {28021},
      author = {Hategekimana, Bernard},
      title = {Genetically Modified Grain Corn and Soybeans in Quebec and  Ontario in 2000 and 2001},
      address = {2002},
      number = {1391-2016-117098},
      series = {Agriculture and Rural Working Paper 54},
      pages = {41},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {This report focuses on the changes in the area of  genetically modified (GM) grain corn and soybeans,  comparing the year 2001 with 2000. In the 2001 growing  season, total GM area increased significantly for both GM  grain corn and soybean crops in Quebec and Ontario. The  number of large farms seeding GM crops rose considerably,  while the number of small- and medium-sized farms growing  GM crops was quite unchanged. The increase in GM soybean  area was higher than that of GM grain corn. Farms growing  both corn and soybeans made the biggest contribution to the  increase. The increase appears to be a consequence of both  higher average area of GM crops grown per farm by farmers  who grew GM crops in 2000 and, to a lesser extent, the  adoption of GM technology by new farmers.  Most of the  increased GM area was in Quebec, where the area seeded to  GM grain corn rose 30.3% and to soybeans, 63.0%. In  Ontario, the increase was 11.3% for grain corn and 25.4%  for soybeans. In both provinces, the greater GM area for  soybeans was more than double the increase in GM area for  grain corn.  In Quebec and in Ontario, the proportion of GM  grain corn and soybean area to total grain corn and soybean  area has increased significantly. In Quebec, GM area  accounted for 31% of grain corn area and 27% of soybean  area in 2001 compared to 27% and 17% respectively in 2000.  In Ontario, the proportions were 29% for grain corn and 23%  for soybean in 2001 compared to 27% and 17% respectively in  2000.  In 2001, the proportion of large farms (total  operated area greater than 980 acres) reporting GM grain  corn or soybeans increased more than any other farm size  category. This was especially apparent in Quebec. However,  the small farm category, which accounted for the largest  proportion of GM area in 2000, saw its share drop  significantly in 2001. Statistics Canada's November Farm  Survey data shows that yields for GM soybeans and grain  corn have been better than yields for non-GM crops, and  that growing GM grain corn and soybeans appears to have  improved the average yield for both crops.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/28021},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.28021},
}