"Torsten Brinch" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:49:16 -0500, "Gordon Couger"
wrote:

The only major concern by farmers about RR wheat is it's marketability.

It should be a major concern to them, if their customers send signals
of "Don't want it. Don't need it", as reported in the article.

There is no point in growing something that we can't sell.

Exactly. There is a distinct possibility that RR wheat for bread could
fall in that category.

yes, but only a possibility. So far there isn't a lot of evidence either
way, and the success of RR soya seems to indicate that the possibility is
relatively remote.

Certainly for a lot of the world last year the choice was to buy US, UK, or
Ukranian, and the latter seems to be off the market for next year due to
marketting scandals and the arrest of the agriculture minister

Jim Webster