Biotech info video that all Canadians should be shown.

[pourfarmer]

I'm guessing Pro-cert?

[ColevilleH2S]

Glyphosate a soil sterilant? Ya whatevs:
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[Ache4Acres]

In my opinion...(and yes biglentil..i recall your asshole comment)...GMOs themselves are not the problem. As was mentioned here there a million ways to affect a genome and plant breeding or GMO are not materially different.

The problem comes when chemical resistance is the genetic modification. Then suddenly the use of chemicals like glyphosate explodes until they are shipping it out in tanker trucks. Spray it before seeding, spray it after seeding, spray it in crop and spray it days before harvest just for good measure.

Nobody here would drink the chemicals we use, yet we spray them liberally on the food we produce...it is not good but its the way the system works right now.

The idea of going organic is nice but i have never heard of a 20,000 acre organic farm and i doubt the model can work on that scale. Just too hands on. Its easier to spray at 20 mph with 120ft booms than it is to pull weeds by hand.

one final thought is that if the Pro-GMO guys want to improve their marketability, they should rebrand from GMO to PFP (Perfected Food Product) or something similar. It worked for the Global Warming guys re-branding as Climate Change!

[Hopalong]

Think pesticide free production was tried a few years ago but organic movement and promoters sort of overwhelmed it.
Think it involved not using some products on growing crops.

[sumdumguy]

And I repeat, " I am not fond of eating bread made from wheat that has been Rounded Up, just prior to combining." Founded or unfounded, just saying. Thanx but no thanx.

[pourfarmer]

Curious why ADO won't say who he is certified with?

[ado089]

1) Same one I told you last summer. 2) I have clean record and I don't need someone who doesn't like the fact that I don't drink the organic kool-aid causing me grief. I haven't needed to start a grievance log and I intend to keep it that way.

[pourfarmer]

Don't recall you ever saying which one you were certified with? I guess a guy could find out via COR?

[hobbyfrmr]

Pesticide Free Production had merit, but agreed, the organic demand wave swept it away.
You could use fertilizer and a pre planting burn off. The only rule was no post emergence herbicides. Once the crop was out of the ground it was on its own. There was some really valuable crop rotation research done by Dr. Martin Entz.
I was looking at this system, then the organic demand was strong enough for me to go "all in".

I know of a couple of 8,000 acre organic farms in Sask. Nowadays with large tractors and cultivators and high speed vertical tillage it doesnt take long to run over a field.

[tweety]

Pourfarmer, why the burning itch to find out?