Two years ago, I bought a $200 sack of sweet corn seed. It was supposed to have the GMO-induced gene to produce BT and poison the worms that ate it. I finally grew a patch. It was great corn, very sweet, and also extremely wormy.
The seed company finally told everyone, "oh by the way the corn we were selling only works for European worms, not American. But if you buy our new stuff that just came out, at an even higher price, we promise it will work this time."
Most market gardeners lose money trying to grow sweet corn, just like I did. The raccoons ended up eating most of it.
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