With the rice-growing season several weeks old, a biotech firm wanting to plant Missouri's first genetically modified rice crop indicated Monday that last-minute setbacks make producing a crop this year less likely. "We haven't given up, but it's going to be pretty tough," Ventria Biosciences president Scott Deeter said. "We're still working whatever angles we can to make it work in Missouri, but we're business people. We're developing alternatives as we speak."
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