GMO Agronomics

[boone]

Parsley,etal,
These are the reasons I leave my grain checkoff $ in place, for pure research. Plant developers need to know we are standing behind them with cash and markets. For their security and future opportunity. No agraceutical will touch them as a punishment, so we better be ready to voice our intentions and put the people on the selection committee that will protect them and us. There is out here several farmers making decisions on our behalf, that would use their grandmothers biowaste device for a machinery bushing. And to hell with the longer term repercussions. Just so they can farm big acres with little skill a cell phone, and a large operating loan. They have been told by the shills of the chem-biz they are so leading edge they believe it. My grandfather left Germany to come here in 1906 for shortsighted goofoffs. I don't think so! boone

[TOM4CWB]

Boone;

THat was quite a mouth full of interesting words!

Are you sure this is where your research money is actually going... that it isn't being used for GMO, and "high performance" agronomy work?

[boone]

Tom4cwb No I'm not sure that is where all the money is going. What I'm saying here is if you leave only Monsanto, Syngenta, and DuPont paying the fiddler, don't be surprised if your on your pins dancing to "THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA". I think they have a natural alliance with farmers that can stand on a sidewalk in town and direct a sprayer over 10 thousand acres and if need be send in a custom harvester, or the crop insurance adjuster. Which ever pays the best. That isn't agriculture and it isn't sustainable. Boone

[boone]

Boone don't stand on the road to progress a big truck is coming and it is being driven by the new revolution of agriculture and their sites are set on making agriculture a sustainable and progressive feed the world for a profit business. If you want a mom and pop business the writing is on the wall, get a job in town.

If you want to fight something, fight the Plant Breeder Protection Act.

[boone]

Kernel P l a n t B r e e d e r s R i g h t s w e r e p u t i n p l a - c e f o r t h e c h e m i c a l
c o m p a n i e s (to fast?) These leaders of the future, these damn the torpedoes let's get corporate, bastions of free enterpise have designed the system to perpetuate themselves. The fact that they let you get a woody by being patted on the head, as they show you how to lead the charge is only an aside. If I had a dollar for every shiny young seed/chem rep that has floated into our perceived as substantial home base to tell me how we were going to leave the Luddites hanging on the gate post come harvest. I could pay for my lawyer bill when I kick the next one in his hind end. Ask youself what you were doing in 1962 no better yet go ask your dad. Our family was having a aerial applicator help out the ground rigs with the crop spraying. Don't feed me s--t about progress. Boone

[TOM4CWB]

Boone and Kernel;

Don't you folks know it is Ag Canada... by a long shot... that has been the biggest pusher of the PBR issue...

This is a government down loading of agricultural research back on farmers... and Boone you have been distracted by the sales people comming in the yard... selling varieties most times created by some government agency somewhere in the first place.

Yes there are some exceptions... I know this... however private plant breeders have a very small percentage of the cerial acreage especially...

Seed companies work for some government agency somewhere... nine times out of ten... and are pure and simple tax collecters.

[boone]

Tom4cwb I don't know if Ag Canada has it's fingers in the cookie jar but the USDA stood to gain big time if MONSANTO was able to proceed with DELTA&PINE (cotton seed developer) "TERMINATOR" technology, the contract agreement totally astounded me. I remember reading it for the first time and feel myself blush, sitting alone in front of the computer. Like I said before on most of these issues (grain sales, seed-gouging, chem resistant and GMO's) let's get past the finger pointing and stereotyping and stand a little more united. We are being divided and conquered. We need to discuss these tough issues, but at the end of the day we must remember we as producers have more in common than any other interest group. No one else knows how we collectively felt August 1st (frost) or when we had to make the decision to turn the neighbours cows out in the Certified wheat field July 10th. Boone

[boone]

Boone and Tom: You know there is alot of things that are fustrating about agriculture but in most cases of fustration we have more than one option and a choice to make for risk management. Alot of choices in all areas but one, selling Human consumption wheat and barley, and look how much trouble that is getting us into.

Eatmore your right we could mill the one million tonnes of high quality wheat right here in Canada. Rather than exporting wheat and jobs to the USA lets export processed products.

Somepeople say we can't do that, theres no such word as can't when your talking making money and jobs.

[parsley]

This is your good idea kernel, "Rather than exporting wheat and jobs to the USA lets export processed products", and I know guys who have processed product sitting on pallattes waiting to be exported. Grown in Canada. Milled in Canada. Canadian employees.

But they are refused export licenses by the CWB

Back to square one, rain. YOu see the CWB is the big problem, not the USA.

Parsley

[boone]

Parsley; Hit shift f-7 on your keyboard your in the wrong string here. This is GMO's read it and weep column. Trash CWB is up a couple.
Boone