Flax Council and RR Flax development

[terralex]

Just read Weber's daily and one of the items mentions that the Flax council of Canada is partnering up with a US firm to develop RR flax. Great if you want weed control in your flax. Sucks that you now have a RR resitant weed the next year.

That being said, I wonder if the flax council had the wisdom to ask the EU wether they would like another version of GMO flax. Maybe they would accept RR flax if there was no triffid in it.

[boarderbloke]

I guess that would be one way of getting rid of Triffid! Attain, would get rid of RR Flax.

[boarderbloke]

ya, ya, I know, the marketing! maybe they should do their testing a seed expansion in the USA this time.

[parsley]

The Flax Council of Canada have not even posted on their website that they are investing about $5.5 million in a new partnership with Cibus Global, including the proceeds of a $4 million grant it received from the Canadian government.

Why?

Money coming from new strain of seed would be split between the Flax Council and Cibus, according to Barry Hall, president of the growers’ group.

So why aren't farmers informed on the Flax Council website? To their credit,Sask Flax Commission posted the press release.

You'd think spending that kind of money and forming a partnership with ONE company would boast a one liner, but it didn't.

Someotimes what is not said is more interesting than what IS said.Pars

[parsley]

This is the page listing Flax Council of Canada's Boars;

http://www.flaxcouncil.ca/english/index.jsp?p=board

Do farmers like being treated like mushrooms?

They have committed thte flax industry to this:

"San Diego’s Cibus Global is uniting with Canada’s flax growers to develop a crop strain resistant to glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weed killer Roundup. Flax, also known as linseed, is a major crop grown for both its seeds and fibers, with various parts of the plant used to make linen and other fabrics, dyes and inks, medicines, and other products."

Yup.

You are testing to get rid of flax that contains a chemical gene for $110.00 a pop so that Trifid flax can be replaced with, wait for it, wait...wait...wait(kind of exciting isn't it?) ...wait.... a "crop strain resistant to glyphosate."

Yes.

[parsley]

Canada's Flax Nobility (FN), speaking for YOU,have formed a partnership your EU buyers/consumers will love to eat!

A ship a week!

"San Diego’s Cibus Global is uniting with Canada’s flax growers to develop a crop strain resistant to glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weed killer Roundup."

Well, I'll be go to hell and back in a FN flax handbasket.

Wonder who got lucky? Those initial shares would fill a handbasket for a handmaiden.

[parsley]

BASF and Cibus collaborate on herbicide tolerant (HT) crops

In July 2007, BASF and Cibus announced their collaboration to develop and commercialize non-GM HT oilseed **** and canola.

Budds, huh?

[parsley]

"Examples of such collaborations that will help shape the future of trait-based innovations from BASF include those with BASF Plant Science, the plant biotechnology company of BASF, and collaborations with Monsanto Company and Cibus LLC"


Cibus LLC ??????

So?

[parsley]

"Cibus LLC changed its' name to Cibus Global"


Oh.

[parsley]

Cibus will:

quote

......."develop crops with tolernace to "a spectrum of crop protection products that MAI markets" as well as "performance enhancement" traits. Further details remains confidential."

unquote

"performance enhancement" traits? What's that mean? Plant crack?

[parsley]

Here's a market watcher's commentary:

"I’m interested to see when these companies will complete their offerings, or roar out of stealth mode. In the meantime, check out the consolidated list below of February under-the-radar deals.
..............

Cibus Global San Diego, CA

A developer of environmentally friendly technology for producing crop traits Equity* $201,132

*includes some options and warrants"

Environmentally friendly Glysophate resistant?Huh? Best spin of the week! Read it again....Environmentally friendly Glysophate resistant.

The EU consumer will never know the diff with that kind of marketing. Scour the ships. But dump that old flax so the price is nice and high to buy that seed coming down the tube. Pars

[charliep]

Just curious where anyone read round up ready flaxseed. Could just as easily be a clearfield variety given BASF is involved. This is not a genetically engineered/transgenics system but rather uses mutagenic technology. From what I know, Europe doesn't have any problem with using this technique in plant breeding.

<a href="http://www.basf.com/group/pressrelease/P-09-119"clearfield</a>

[charliep]

[URL="http://www.basf.com/group/pressrelease/P-09-119"]clearfield[/URL]

[parsley]

Warrants and options, a guess, cott?

So how's about you farmers answering a few questions, as I'm a bit of a dull gurl.

1. Who's gonna get to sell the new seed to you?
2. Who got shares in Cibus?
3. Would anyone, (keeping in mind this is just a pie in the sky idea from out of the blue) get promised either/both election and/or non-election-time goods and services? (hotel rooms, spare flights, cash, equipment, office space etc)
4.Is there such a thing as a dowry payment for the marriage of Flax to a groomed Cibus, tucked in a pouch for the fathers as each danced with the bride? This is comic book stuff, right? Right? Please say right.

5.Should Tom4CWB be made to burn or eat his non-glysphate resistant flax that may contaminate a field of the "environmentally" safe flax...or be liable? Will you be sued for growing the new flax even if it grew as a weed in your field?

6. If the new flax causes my puppy to die from multiple parkinson fibrosis due to the secret "performance enhancement" traits you are not allowed to know about, do farmers pay for the unintended consequence cleanup? Again?

7.Where is a copy/description of the Cibus-Flax Grower's deal? In checking's safe?

8. Only one flax-testing company was hired, Only One biotech company was hired and one corporation (Viterra) was on the hustings for the Flax industry. Is that the way you want the Flax Council of Canada to represnet your interests? One on one behind closed doors?

9. How will seed companies price the new hot varieity?

10. Will you be forced to use the glysophate resistant seed or else your flax export papers be denied?

Think carefully about the ten pokes.

Farmers are very close to being ordered what to grow, what seed to use, when to test, and where to sell, without knowing anything at all about the dollars you could get if you deleted each and every one of the people supposedly looking after your interests. But that is just an opinion from a farmer. Pars.

[parsley]

PS

"$4 million of the $5.5 million paying for the Flax Council’s half of the project comes from the Canadian Government’s Developing Innovative Agri-Products program (DIAP).

It is unusual for federally-funded development programs to flow so readily to projects executed outside the country"

I would personally like to see Gerry Ritz kicked in the balls for this.

Yes, read it again.

In the balls. Pars