The Changing World of Wheat - Sean Gardner - Monsanto Global Wheat Lead

[shaney]

[ajl]

Why would Monsanto be wasting money researching wheat is beyond me. The stuff is in surplus and can be grown anywhere. Monsanto should quit wasting money like this so that they could help reduce our input costs and still send dividends to the shareholders. Waste like this is the main reason there results were down last year.

[haveapulse]

Do the math: TUA x wheat acres, branded wheat x branded chemicals x wheat acres. Do farmers need to grow cheaper wheat and pay more for technology, does not apply to the formula. The Gods of genetics will impose and I expect even amaze.
Canada is good ground for the experiment as Triffid contamination seems to have proven liability in Canada for non registered varieties is not an issue, and we have not moved to close this door.

Perhaps we should reread Parsley blog on property rights & responsibility.

[shaney]

Actually it is looking like biotech wheat may be in the United States before Canada if things stay status quo. I would not expect Canada to be the testing ground for biotech wheat at all. Australia and the US could have the gentics first.

[wd9]

Round up ready peas, now that would be nice.

[wilagro]

Just what we DON'T need...Monsanto to screw up the bloody wheat trade. When will they ever stop trying to make a buck off of the farmer while planting the seeds of destruction of the industry.
When will the farmer STOP supporting these so-called innovators?

[wd9]

I like growing RR canola because i use far less other chemicals and diesel fuel then non HT canola. It would seem Wilagro that a product is successful only because there is a benefit to using it. Most farmers use it because it makes sense.

They are not seeds of destruction, they are seeds with a particular technology added to them by a retailer that are certified safe for feed food and the environment where the farmer decides whether or not they are of benefit. They pay for it making both themselves and Monsanto profitable. If it were not so, the product would disappear as would the company.

[bucket]

RR wheat has been grown in Canada already. Its too bad that monsanto, the cwb , the cfia, wheatgrowers, etc dont want to tell us where and why.

We will see the same thing that happened in the flax market happen in the wheat market.

And all those from the above organizations will be there like barry hall saying " ...uh duh we don't know how this happened , uh duh ..."

[haveapulse]

Before we tread down this road we need legislation that makes companies responsible for the costs of cross contamination.

[wilagro]

Right on 'bucket', you figured that out so why can't the big shots in the trade figure it out?

They have the cart before the horse. If there IS an advantage in GMO wheat or "death gene" wheat, approach the marketplace in Europe and elsewhere and pre-sell the advantages to THEM and see what THEY say. It would be interesting as to how they would react to such overtures.

[Hopperbin]

I see it now, we use less toxic chemicals on ge Wheat and the wheat board give us the excuse of no market, under market price. I can understand the buyer is always right but when we as farmers would rather eat GM wheat and the rest of consumers reject it there is something wrong with the picture.

[Hopperbin]

I for one would rather eat bread sprayed with glyphosate or liberty than what we currently have. Should we have a special market just for us grain producers to consume our special high quality grains? Would that be an incentive or a wake the **** up call to consumers?

[haveapulse]

CHICAGO, March 5 (Reuters) - The Minneapolis Grain Exchange said on Friday it would lift a rule that requires a delivery warehouse to deliver non-genetically modified wheat against MGEX futures, if requested by the party taking the wheat.
The regional U.S. grain exchange said the rule, in effect since 2004, would be eliminated starting with its March 2012 spring wheat futures contract.
"The commercial marketplace will sort through the issues, should transgenic wheat enter into the supply chain," MGEX President and Chief Executive Mark Bagan said in a statement.
"We want to be very clear that this vote does not endorse or oppose the use of transgenic wheat varieties. Rather, our action is rooted in the best interest of our market participants," Bagan said.
Currently no genetically modified wheat is grown on a commercial scale anywhere in the world due to opposition from consumers and food industry players.
Monsanto Co , a leading developer of transgenic corn and soybeans, backed off a plan to commercialize a genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant spring wheat in 2004. At the time, the wheat industry feared the new wheat would hurt U.S. export business.
The Minneapolis exchange said its owners voted to eliminate the restriction following the unanimous recommendations of its contracts committee and board of directors.
the above was borrowed from another post.

The door is open.

Better hope the world endorses GMO.