Some of these photos show conventional crop types,
while others show genetically modified crops. All were taken at various crop test field trial sites in the UK.

	Roundup Ready sugar beet plants, Cambridgeshire, June 1998. The trial was conducted to demonstrate control of oilseed rape in the sugar beet crop.
Conventional sugar beet plants, Cambridgeshire, June 1998. These crops would be sprayed two or three times and mechanically weeded, releasing additional chemicals into the environment and contributing to soil erosion, while Roundup Ready sugar beets would only be sprayed once or twice.
	Roundup Ready sugar beet, Norfolk, July 1997. The weeds you can see in this photo are in the unsprayed pathways, demonstrating the precision weed control targeting enabled by GM agricultural techniques.
Roundup Ready sugar beet plants, Norfolk, June 1997. This plot was sprayed later than conventional beets would be, allowing weeds to grow and provide habitat and food for various invertebrates important to the soil ecosystem.

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