Dr. Terry Etherton, the Distinguished Professor of Animal Nutrition and Head of the Department of Dairy and Animal Science at Penn State University posted a blog highlighting several research summaries by PG Economics that demonstrate the environmental and economic benefits of agricultural biotechnology.

Dr. Etherton writes that biotech crops require “less-frequent herbicide or insecticide applications and reduced energy usage in soil cultivation from the use of no-till and reduced-till farming systems.” The research summaries show that in 2007 the GHG emission reductions from biotech crops were equivalent to removing nearly 6.3 million cars from the road for one year.

Read more about the results of the 2009 PG Economics study in Dr. Etherton’s blog here.

Watch Graham Brooks, Director of PG Economics, discuss the company’s findings about the benefits of agricultural biotechnology here.