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    #51
    gt73 is one of the first glyphosate tolerant varieties of canola registered.
    Some 16 years ago. Pars do you think conventional growers should not grow canola within 4 miles of your organic fields? Or you should compensate them for not being able to grow canola within 4 miles of your fields?

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      #52
      coleville,

      I will reply tommorow. I need to finish answering a batch of emails, and then indulge in a deliciously warm shower before I hit the sheets.
      Until then, Pars

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        #53
        One of the accusations is the cross breeding of canola and
        mustard. In the 50 years western Canada has been growing
        mustard and canola, how much outcrossing has occurred? From
        what I know, brown mustard is still brown mustard. Oriental is
        still oriental. Canola is canola. Recently, specialty oil canola is
        still specialty oil canola. The system is able to move this product
        through the system in a way that meets most customers needs.
        That would indicate to me that there is limited outcrossing and
        most farms are very careful about things like crop rotations and
        keeping stored separately in clean bins.

        A thing a farmer would see is round up resistant mustard in their
        fields if they have been outcrossing with the round up ready
        canola.

        Also note the three issues that most have brought up on
        genetically engineered crops are detection (can it be identified),
        segregation (Parsley can talk to this) and tolerances. I will add a
        fourth which Parsley has mentioned in another thread and that is
        traceability.

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          #54
          "Pars do you think conventional growers should not grow canola within 4 miles of your organic fields"

          They SHOULD be able to grow canola.

          But one of the segregation solutions would be encouraging neighbors to discuss with each other, some of their cropping patterns.

          Not only organic/conv
          You seem to want to go one versus the other.

          Conventional Linoleum flax growers not growing in the field next to his Conventional food flax neighbor. Agreeing to it if they can. Cuts risk. Isn't segregation about risk?

          Won't be perfect, but can be part of helping segregation.

          Cowboys fix and check fences tog all the time. Neighbors are a wonderful invention. Make more of them. Pars

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