Guess what flax growers?

[parsley]

An example, Tom:

In 2000, Advanta imported Canadian breeder foundation canola seed into Sweden, Germany and France and found that it contained 0.4% unapproved GM traits. It was because of gene flow.

Ding ding.

France ordered it ploughed down. Sweden prohibited the canola from entering the market

Ding ding.

Do you suppose this should have been a heads up for Canadian foundation seed breeders?

[agstar77]

Do the Seedgrowers Association have liability insurance?? Or is it up to individual seedgrowers. If they don't then they need it for future situations, ugly. I have not grown flax for years. I would only grow it now under contact with guarantees on pricing and acceptance with or without Triffid.

[oneoff]

The warning bells went off when the industry tried to force feed a flawed certified seed solution to the Triffid nightmare. That plan has now become totally unwound; but do we hear an apology for misleading the farming community? It is patently evident that the regulators and the promoters and the researchers should never have been entrusted with the science; not yet and maybe never should be. Do they not see what has gone wrong; and what will again happen until they learn the lessons that absolutely must be the foundation of this experiment.
They are playing with much more than their own marbles. Time to act like they appreciate that fact.

[bucket]

I think the testing protocol at the labs is flawed.

They should review the science behind the tests.

[broker]

I heard that buyers have intentionally bought positive testing flax, then shipped it to the US and the carlot results were negative! So what does any of this really matter??

[wmoebis]

"In the interest of producers".

Where is our watch dog?

Is this not a grain quality issue?

[TOM4CWB]

broker,

one seed in one million seeds... or .0001% is one seed in about 6kg. It would be hard to get the one seed... when it is sampled. You would expect to find it (the triffid gm event) only 4% of the times the 240 gram samples were taken.

Many believe the event has been diluted down through cross breeding... to where the gene could be only 12.5% of the genetic material that was in the Triffid variety of flax kernel.

That there are false positive events... is very hard to believe. At this level of dilution... when making linoleum... with most this flax?


Lets make it here.