Frank Kutka, the maker of Organic Ready, is out to save organic corn. Oddly enough, he is doing it by an old-fashioned, home-grown method that has been around for at least a couple of centuries: meticulous genetic breeding that takes advantage of Mother Nature's best traits of self-preservation and doesn't artificially modify the plant's genes. Can he succeed? Farmers in Argentina, Poland, Chile and a growing list of U.S. states think so.
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