GM Drought tolerant wheat **Klause**TOM

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Graeme Sait has an interesting view of wheat.

https://blog.nutri-tech.com.au/the-bastardisation-of-our-food/

I read the article. I'm not going to comment or attempt to find fault with it. I do however note that it is completely lacking in sources and citations, which is fine, it is a blog post, not a paper, but does he have any other publications with sources to validate some of the claims made in this article?

[FertaCloud]

Also some new tech coming down in water retention products. We are going to run some trials on a granular product that you place with the seed that supposedly "catch and releases" the water. I think we will see a few of these hit the market in the next few years also.

[farmaholic]

Also some new tech coming down in water retention products. We are going to run some trials on a granular product that you place with the seed that supposedly "catch and releases" the water. I think we will see a few of these hit the market in the next few years also.

Is AgCanada research farm at Indian Head working on such a product. Some kind of Bio-Char....would be high in carbon too. Using willows and/or some kind of high volume producing grass....some guys were asking if coattails/bullrushes could be used as a feedstock. This stuff was burnt and compressed into pellet form.

Edit it...I think they also talked about the product having a high concentration of Phosphorus....using the willows to "mop up" agricultural phos run-off.

Sound like a good product for our buddy hobbyfrmr!

[malleefarmer]

This is very good news. And this is where GMO's should have started out, instead of herbicide tolerance. Then GMO wouldn't be a swear word today. This is the type of progress that organic will be locked out of, the potential is mind boggling. But, the public debate is poisoned already, not sure how something like this could be endorsed now.

100% agree AF5 gm crops always thought to be herbicide tolerant when there so much more that cou;d be done

[jimmy]

Believe me I get your point.
But ignoring technology at home will not raise the price of wheat worldwide.
Some reasearch allows us to do more with less.

I just hate being a pessimist. I have dedicated my whole life to agriculture and have used the latest and greatest technology I could afford along with the best variety of seed out there. I agree research does sometimes allow us to do more for less but now we are paying for it dearly and they want more than we can give them. The world is going to run out of food slogan was used in the 70s. Now with the developing countries getting their shit together along with our technology and seed I am afraid they will bury us in it.

[Marusko]

I've been waiting for some development into non-pulse crops getting N-fixing capability.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I've been waiting for some development into non-pulse crops getting N-fixing capability.

Alberta researchers are working on it successfully right now, using triticale, aiming for wheat.

[Marusko]

Alberta researchers are working on it successfully right now, using triticale, aiming for wheat.

Public researchers?

[Klause]

Russia already has it also... It's the first of the super wheats, with HB4 being #2.

Yes, public researchers in both cases - Universities AFAIK?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

https://www.seed.ab.ca/way-nitrogen-fixing-cereals/ https://www.seed.ab.ca/way-nitrogen-fixing-cereals/

Public researchers?

[Marusko]

https://www.seed.ab.ca/way-nitrogen-fixing-cereals/ https://www.seed.ab.ca/way-nitrogen-fixing-cereals/

Cool!

[wd9]

GMO wheat anything would never get approval in Canada.