While we're on the subject of GMOs once again, there has been another quiet story unfolding, one that you obviously won't see on Faux News, SeeB.S., SeeNoNews(CNN), and the media network shills for mercantilist America: farmers, it seems, are abandoning GMOs in growing numbers, and the reason is rather interesting:

Farmers Abandoning GMO Seeds and the Reason Will Surprise You

In case you missed it: here's the core of the reason, or rather, core reasons(Note the plural):

"A growing number of farmers are abandoning genetically modified seeds, but it’s not because they are ideologically opposed to the industry. "Simply put, they say non-GMO crops are more productive and profitable. "Modern Farmer magazine discovered that there is a movement among farmers abandoning genetically modified organisms (GMO) because of simple economics. “'We get the same or better yields, and we save money up front,' crop consultant and farmer Aaron Bloom said of non-GMO seeds. Bloom has been experimenting with non-GMO seeds for five years and he has discovered that non-GMO is more profitable. "The re-converts to non-GMO seeds are not hippies but conservative Midwestern farmers who are making a business decision, Modern Farmer discovered. They are switching back to natural seed because it is more profitable — not because of any ideology." “Five years ago the [GMO seeds] worked,” said farmer Christ Huegerich, who along with his father planted GMO seeds. “I didn’t have corn rootworm because of the Bt gene, and I used less pesticide. Now, the worms are adjusting, and the weeds are resistant. Mother Nature adapts.”

Now there are a number of hit-the-palm-on-the-forehead-and-exclaim-"Doh!"-Homer-Simpson moments here.

Homer Simpson moment number one: Nature appears to adapt faster than agribusiness corporations can adapt their GMOs, and hence

(Homer Simpson moment number two) while in the short run GMOs appear to increase profits and productivity, in the long run productivity declines, expenses rise as farmers have to purchase additional pest controls in addition to the already-more-costly GMOs, and hence

(Homer Simpson moment number three) production and profitability decline and hence

(Homer Simpson moment number four) it's more profitable and productive to plant the non-GMO seeds over the long run.

Or to put it corn-and-country simple: