Our wheat markets will be done.

[WiltonRanch]

Press release said it was of unknown origin not belonging to anything Monsanto made. So who else was doing this? Aliens from out space? Maybe It was from Percy’s breeding program.

[Braveheart]

It's a non issue. Found in a ditch. None in commercial shipments.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

https://www.country-guide.ca/daily/roundup-ready-wheat-found-in-alberta


[UPDATED: June 14, 2018, 3:16 PM] Genetically modified (GM) wheat — which hasn’t been approved for commercial production in Canada — has been discovered in southern Alberta, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed.

The wheat of unknown origin contains a genetic modification making it resistant to the non-selective herbicide glyphosate, CFIA told reporters today.

All the GM wheat plants discovered in a field ditch have been destroyed and CFIA will monitor the site for three years to ensure the wheat doesn’t show up again.

The CFIA made the announcement during a technical briefing today to discuss what it says is “an isolated finding of a plant product of biotechnology not permitted to be grown in Canada.” CFIA also noted there’s not food safety issue as the same trait has been approved for use in corn, soybeans and canola.

No GM wheat has been found in Canada’s commercial wheat system. That means the discovery should’t disrupt Canadian wheat exports.

That was the American experience. Genetically modified wheat is not approved there either, but since 2013 small amounts have been found growing in Washington state, Oregon and Montana.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined genetically modified wheat is safe for food and feed.

Although never commercialized in Canada or the U.S.,genetically modified wheat was grown in open test plots in both countries. It’s speculated protocols to confine the experimental wheat were not 100 per cent effective.

Monsanto worked with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to develop genetically modified spring wheats suitable for production in Western Canada in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But as the GM wheats got closer to commercialization, opposition from farmers and the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) increased. They feared consumer rejection of GM wheat would result in reduced wheat exports.

In 2004 Monsanto shelved plans to commercialize GM wheat in Canada and around the world.

“This decision was based on discussions with all of the relevant regulatory authorities, and we have mutually agreed that withdrawing the submissions is the appropriate course of action at this time,” Monsanto Canada said in a statement June 18, 2004.

“These actions are in keeping with our recent announcement to defer commercial development of Roundup Ready wheat until other biotechnology traits in wheat are introduced.”

Unapproved GM crops have disrupted markets in the past. StarLink corn is an example. Canada blocked entry of the crop in the fall of 2001.

CDC Triffid flax is another example. The GM flax was approved for commercial production in Canada in 2001, but deregistered to protect Canadian flax exports because importers had not approved it.

Canadian flax exports to EU, until then Canada’s biggest market, almost ground to halt in 2009 after trace amounts of Triffid were found in Canadian flax shipments to Germany.

After five years of purging Canadian flax of CDC Triffid, exports started to increase, but Canada hasn’t fully recaptured the more lucrative European food flax market.

[BreadWinner]

It was grown for several years just on the east side of saskatoon. Just a little chain link fence around it. Probably some spead from the chopper of combine through the fence.

[MBgrower]

So what now? Every load will need to be genetically tested, either we will be charged directly for this added expense, it will just go in the basis. I guess we will just have to eat it.

[macdon02]

How the **** did this get found??? I call bull shit. Next we have to all buy new seed. There'll an extra 10 000 govt inspectors running around the countryside testing everyone. Either the seed industry or govt needed a crisis for job justification and expansion of role. And to be honest who cares. Anyone that's ate a Dorito or a commercially prepared meal has consumed gmos, it's not like the roundup gene is toxic or life expectancy would be decreasing

[farmaholic]

Who the **** is looking for wheat plants in ditches?
Who the **** is spraying ditches with glyphosate to notice the wheat didn't die?

$mells fishy...

Bullshit?

[bucket]

Round up ready wheat was grown under irrigation....I don't think they found the guys that kepthe a few bushels and never will. ...they blamed farmers for tiffid flax when it was the breeder that did it...

Same with contracting land for seed trials ....how hard would it be to keep a bushel or two. ?



Let me connect the dots. ...highly subsidized farmers are always the most ethical. ..right....is that enough of a clue.....

[helmsdale]

Can't say I've ever seen wheat growing in a ditch... that's some pernicious weed if it can get going in a grass ditch.

How long before we have roundup ready wheat all due to mother nature anyway? In the areas still dabbling in chemfallow, roundup is sprayed 3 or 4 times to go after volunteers. It's not a stretch to imagine that one of these times the stars will align, and voila, roundup ready wheat. It'll seed out and if wheat is plugged into it the next year, and then worst case scenario, it's the bin selected to clean for seed... next thing you know its everywhere. It's happened with kochia. I've heard of group 9 resistant wild oats as well.

[biglentil]

Feed is 6 bucks and #1 6.50 and they want to screw us more. Sick