We all want to eat healthier and serve our families high-quality fruits and vegetables that are fresh, ripe and flavorful.

High-quality produce starts in the fields where our food is grown. And, U.S. farmers are proud to provide your family with sweet corn that is not just delicious and wholesome, but has been grown a better way to support a sustainable environment.

Farmers now have the opportunity to plant Seminis® biotech sweet corn hybrids for the fresh market. The product helps farmers produce safe, flavorful food, while preserving the environment and natural resources on their farms.

When farmers grow sweet corn with Bt protein, they reduce:

	Insecticide (pesticide) applications by as much as 85%.
	Fuel and energy use, with fewer trips across the fields.
	Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Healthy Plants Produce Healthy Food

Insects love sweet corn as much as you do. And, farmers work hard to keep damaging insects from destroying plants and eating corn before it’s picked from their fields for your dinner table.

For more than a decade, U.S. sweet corn farmers have benefited from advancements in breeding and biotechnology, which allow them to grow plants with beneficial built-in protein (Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt) that protects the sweet corn from damaging insects.

Bt protein comes from a helpful, naturally occurring bacteria that is often used as an insecticide by organic farmers.

When built into the plant, Bt protein not only provides insect protection from sweet corn pests, allowing farmers to decrease insecticide (pesticide) applications by as much as 85%, but also lets farmers decrease their use of fossil fuels. As a result, sweet corn farmers can grow healthy plants, and we all have access to ears of sweet corn that are nutritious, fresh and flavorful.