CSU, sugar beet co-op emerge as bidders for Boulder County’s GMO transition project

Two longstanding Colorado institutions have applied to run Boulder County’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Innovation Initiative (SARII) as it transitions away from the use of genetically engineered (GE) crops on open space land. It is the second round of bidding on the project after the first round failed to produce a viable proposal.
A previous bidder dropped out, and the involvement of the Rodale Institute, embroiled in a controversial bidding process, is unclear. Details of the p