Hundreds of farmers in Argentina are growing genetically modified wheat this year. A total of 225 producers planted a drought-tolerant wheat developed by Bioceres Crop Solutions on 135,850 acres of land earlier this summer. Growers are expected to harvest about 200,000 tonnes of the HB4 wheat this growing season. The drought-tolerance trait comes from sunflowers […] Read more
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Argentina OKs genetically modified wheat
Researchers say the variety, in which a sunflower gene was inserted, is 20 percent more productive during drought years
Argentina has become the first country in the world to approve transgenic wheat for cultivation and consumption with varieties designed to yield well under drought conditions. Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp., based in the central Argentine city of Rosario, announced the approval of its HB4 drought-tolerant wheat on Oct. 8. The company reports that its HB4 […] Read more
An environmental story can be spun for GM wheat
The question of whether the world wants genetically modified wheat has arisen again following Argentina’s conditional approval of a new altered variety designed to be drought tolerant and herbicide resistant. The approval is contingent on getting an OK from Brazil, its biggest market, and that country’s wheat association Abitrigo says a survey of wheat millers […] Read more
GM wheat appearance in Alberta remains a mystery
GM wheat has arrived in Canada, but unfortunately it was in the form of an unapproved trait found in an unknown variety of the crop. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed that Monsanto’s Roundup Ready trait has been discovered in wheat growing along an access road leading to an oil rig in a field […] Read more
GM wheat discovery prompts calls for changes
Players in the Canadian farm industry are calling for everything from a new grain handling system to a complete ban on genetically modified crops in the wake of another GM contamination incident. The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed last week that Roundup Ready wheat volunteers were found growing in an 80-acre field in Oregon. The […] Read more
Education essential for GM wheat to fly
Address critics | Wheat commission says biotech sector has to inform consumers of the benefits
The general manager of the nascent Alberta Wheat Commission says genetically modified wheat is inevitable as a Canadian crop, perhaps within the next decade. Rick Istead told the House of Commons agriculture committee Nov. 20 it will be a necessary development because wheat yields have to in-crease and the crop must become more efficient in […] Read more
