BASF leaves Germany over GMO

[stonepicker]

I agree with ProFarmer, canola has easily been the
biggest success story in western canada ( crop wise )
Year in year out canola pays the bills. And we sell it on
the open market too! lol. The evil GMO fearmongering
is really getting tiring.

[malta]

GMO canola has been a boon to agriculture for weed control. There are many good things coming, frost tolerance, drought resistance, nitrogen use efficiency, etc, I'm glad the Euro's are against it as that gives us an advantage. Questions for all tose who beat the "organic" drum. How many more acres would be needed to produce the amount of food we now have if we all went "organic". Would you eat an apple with a blemish, or wheat with fusarium?

[Burbert]

Canolie sucksess! What aboot Clubrot?
It is spreading and attackin Comedian
frams? Will technico tricks tackle
Clubrot, er should it just be sprayed
wit higher/higher, rates a glyso. Opps
fergot, kochia, which is now resistant.
Just spray it wit higher, higher, and
higher rates a glyso.......Yup our
fiends at monostanta have the answers ta
it all, higher, and higher ratesa
glypso. Getcha 90 bsbu/acre each and
every time, borring.... Comedians are
way smarter than Germies, always have
bean!

[parsley]

I blew out the candles once again, but I didn't
seem to become enlightened enough over the
course of the year.

Charliep's persuasians continue to be llinked to
processes...mutagenesis, gene transfer, et al, , all
of them presented in the light of the Trinity, which
is admirable when scientific discovery is the goal.

In his hot off the press book called "Throw Them
All Out", Peter Schweiser makes the point that
today's political entrepreneurs use grants,
subsidies and tax breaks to make profit.

Tie that to the fact that patent profit is enjoyed by
biotech entrepreneurs , but patent liability is
dumped on taxpayers. And eaters

That is why trust, and not process has become a
food issue with consumers. Process names
change. Bankruptcy. Amalgamation. Offshore
incorporation. A biotech company can tell and
feed your family anything if there is no ownership
of liability. And if no one but the scientific-inventor
understands the process. Charliep, I obviously
need more educating.

On the inventive side, food can become an
effective bioterrorist weapon. Parsley

[parsley]

And if you take the wealth of every nation, and
divide it by the number of eaters in the world,
there is simply not enough money to go around to
buy the food that you grow, for everyone. Let
alone provide you with a profit. Pars

[furrowtickler]

Clubroot was brought in by market gardens in the Edmonton area - think before you bable.
And yes resistant weeds are showing up brought on by meatheads who do not follow proper cham rotations.
At the end of the day that has nothing to do with GMO crops what-so-ever.

[wilagro]

furrowtickler: Not to mention the farmer who cuts the rate to save money and says reduced rates work just as well...but in reality set up the conditions for spray resistant weeds to form.

I hear it all the time from neighbours. If Monsanto recommends 1 litre of roundup per acre, they go half rate and say that the herbicide companies just want to make money. I have always sprayed at the recommended rate for the intended target.

[Burbert]

NEWSFLASH, clubrot is spreading! Canolie
acres are being effected. Look at the fn
maps relative to the clubrot problem fer
f's sakes. Who toldya clubrot came from
market gardens, the Albertie gobermont.
NEWSFLASH the Albertie gobermont lies,
lies, lies, ta Comedian framers...........