Are chinese concerned about blackleg or.....

[poorboy]

There seem to be lots of translation issues with Chinese on the canola issue. Think that they are actually concerned with blackleg or is it clubroot? They are worried about transmission through dirt and seed. My understanding is the translation was for a "foot disease" and that could be clubroot.
This is somewhat new to Canada and other countries probably don't want to get it until resistant varieties become more common.

This is probably much more likely than the blackleg interpretation which has been around for years and years.

[furrowtickler]

Now that would make more sense than blackleg.

[haveapulse]

...lets say they were, it should give us great comfort to note the proactive measures the industry has taken to control the spread of club root.

[ajl]

The Chinese are mearly using blackleg as the excuse of the day to manipulate the market for some perceived political gain on the part of the rulers over there. That is the only thing that motivates Chinese officials. This will go on until they start to miss the 9% inport duty that they get on seed imports. Then they will start to relax restrictions. Hopefully the Canadian industry doesn't offer them something in the meantime. They would like to see that too.

[Hopperbin]

Interesting that the futures price has not dropped much since the Chinese closed the door. This canola must be going somewhere, hopefully UAE crushing plants are working overtime.