The Changing World of Wheat - Sean Gardner - Monsanto Global Wheat Lead

[shaney]

[ajl]

Why would Monsanto be wasting money researching wheat is beyond me. The stuff is in surplus and can be grown anywhere. Monsanto should quit wasting money like this so that they could help reduce our input costs and still send dividends to the shareholders. Waste like this is the main reason there results were down last year.

[haveapulse]

Do the math: TUA x wheat acres, branded wheat x branded chemicals x wheat acres. Do farmers need to grow cheaper wheat and pay more for technology, does not apply to the formula. The Gods of genetics will impose and I expect even amaze.
Canada is good ground for the experiment as Triffid contamination seems to have proven liability in Canada for non registered varieties is not an issue, and we have not moved to close this door.

Perhaps we should reread Parsley blog on property rights & responsibility.

[shaney]

Actually it is looking like biotech wheat may be in the United States before Canada if things stay status quo. I would not expect Canada to be the testing ground for biotech wheat at all. Australia and the US could have the gentics first.

[wd9]

Round up ready peas, now that would be nice.

[wilagro]

Just what we DON'T need...Monsanto to screw up the bloody wheat trade. When will they ever stop trying to make a buck off of the farmer while planting the seeds of destruction of the industry.
When will the farmer STOP supporting these so-called innovators?

[wd9]

I like growing RR canola because i use far less other chemicals and diesel fuel then non HT canola. It would seem Wilagro that a product is successful only because there is a benefit to using it. Most farmers use it because it makes sense.

They are not seeds of destruction, they are seeds with a particular technology added to them by a retailer that are certified safe for feed food and the environment where the farmer decides whether or not they are of benefit. They pay for it making both themselves and Monsanto profitable. If it were not so, the product would disappear as would the company.

[bucket]

RR wheat has been grown in Canada already. Its too bad that monsanto, the cwb , the cfia, wheatgrowers, etc dont want to tell us where and why.

We will see the same thing that happened in the flax market happen in the wheat market.

And all those from the above organizations will be there like barry hall saying " ...uh duh we don't know how this happened , uh duh ..."

[haveapulse]

Before we tread down this road we need legislation that makes companies responsible for the costs of cross contamination.

[wilagro]

Right on 'bucket', you figured that out so why can't the big shots in the trade figure it out?

They have the cart before the horse. If there IS an advantage in GMO wheat or "death gene" wheat, approach the marketplace in Europe and elsewhere and pre-sell the advantages to THEM and see what THEY say. It would be interesting as to how they would react to such overtures.