61.   Advocates note that no crops are truly natural because farmers have been tampering with genetic makeup for thousands of years.

62.   Both crops are in better condition than crops a year ago.

63.   Bt corn, cotton and potatoes are already on the market, but many more Bt crops are in development.

64.   Bumper crops were nearly ready for harvest as the Hurricane Mitch approached.

65.   Bumper crops are good news for consumers.

66.   But as Iowa farmers see it, the corn crop will not be so great because lengthy dry spells this summer limited its growth.

67.   But cotton farmers note that just over the Rio Grande in northern Mexico, where there is no weevil eradication program, many crops were normal.

68.   But for citrus farmers the huge crop is a mixed blessing since it will almost certainly bring a drop in prices.

69.   But it is opposed in the West and South where crops that are costly to produce, such as rice and cotton, are grown.

70.   But reaping what they sow will depend on whether new attacks come before the crops are ready.