SAN ANTONIO, Texas — There’s lots of news from day one of the 2014 Commodity Classic conference.
Syngenta says it is making good progress on hybrid wheat. Plenty of field testing is underway, and there should be commercial varieties of hybrid wheat available to growers in Canada and the United States by the end of this decade.
MS Technologies and Bayer CropScience have teamed up to create a brand new herbicide tolerant soybean, which will be commercially available in North America by mid-decade.
The Balance GT soybean is a double herbicide tolerant trait stack that is tolerant to glyphosate and isoxaflutole, which is the active ingredient in Bayer’s Balance Flex corn herbicide.
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Balance GT soybean varieties yield equal to or better than many of today’s soybean varieties, according to MS Technologies.
Monsanto has entered into a $300 million deal with Novozymes that enables the seed technology giant to market biologicals created by Novozymes and to create new microbials for farmers. Monsanto says all new products will be subjected to vigorous testing before heading to market.
The United Soybean Board has launched a campaign to educate farmers on how to fend off herbicide tolerant weeds. Some herbicide tolerant weeds have appeared in 22 states and are causing an estimated $2 billion in losses to U.S. crop growers.
The U.S. National Corn Growers Association has teamed up with the Grocery Manufacturers Association and other organizations to lobby the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to oversee a national voluntary labelling program for foods containing genetically modified ingredients. The NCGA prefers that approach to the patchwork of mandatory labelling initiatives occurring at the state level.
