Re: [CTRL] Here we go again....GMO?
-Caveat Lector- It seems the last century has been nothing more than a plan to hoard precious metals out of the countries of origin, and to lock down food and water...my question is: What happens when nobody produces food plants with viable seed? Will those things disappear altogether? B Kilgore Trout wrote: -Caveat Lector- This is interesting..."CLEARFIELD RICE" If they get this into RICE seed, then what will happen? As I take it, this is spearheaded by American Cyanamid. Here is the memo I was sent: I am in the Farming/Seed Industry. ** What is a GMO and a non-GMO ? GMO = Genetically Modified Organism * The herbicide tolerance trait in Cyanamid's Clearfield* rice crop is derived from a naturally occurring resistant line developed, identified, and patented at the LSU Ag Center by Dr, Tim Croughan using traditional and enhanced breeding techniques. Because they contain NO foreign genetic material ( DNA ) they are considered NON-GMO... So Clearfield rice is a Non GMO...This was discovered in 1993 by Tim Croughan at LSU . He found a single rice plant in a haystack of millions that showed after application of IMI the plant could break down the active ingredient * Any plant derived from a process whereby foreign DNA is inserted into the genome of the plant is considered a genetically modified organism or GMO... What production changes will we see with this new technology that will give the farmer more flexibility from the start of the growing season... 1. Mudding it in may go the way of the dinosaurs. Discontinuing the practice of trying to bury red rice seed in flooded fields has a lot of benefits. When the farmer puts his equipment into the field and works in the water, that's the worse thing you can do with a tractor due to reducing the life of everything on the tractor.. 2. When chemical control of red rice arrives, growers will be able to choose water seeding or dry seeding and put more money on the bottom line.. In Southwest Louisiana, Water seeding costs 5% more and yields are reduced by 5% ; farmers use roughly 100 lbs of seed with drill seeding and 150 lbs of seed with water seeding. 3. Flexibility in application of herbicides with Clearfield rice is another plus. Right now we have a narrow window when most of our herbicides are applied. For example, Propanil must be applied when the weeds are very small and re-flooded within a 3-5 day period to maintain grass control...On Clearfield rice, growers will make a Premerge or Preplant soil application and the residual control will give the producer a month or more to apply the sequential treatment of Clearfield* herbicide (with or without a tank-mix partner depending on weed spectrum). The application of a pre-plant incorporated or pre-emerge followed by a pre-flood application ( 4 to 5 leaf rice) is likely to give the best weed control. So far in the research we have seen, you will get 85% control of red rice and most weeds and grasses with just the preplant or premerge application and then the preflood application will finalize your weed control plus reduce the possibility of cross pollination of red rice. The weak areas in weed control have been sedges, coffeebean, and joint vetch but different tank mixes have been giving us good control. In 1999, an extensive research program is being conducted by State Universities and Cyanamid's researchers on the herbicide rate, application timing, climatic influences, soil type influences, and the weed control spectrum. 4. This flexibility will give you better use of your irrigation investments - With Propanil, you need to flood up within 3 days, whereas with Clearfield, you've got the next few weeks. So a well that formerly could have flooded up 200 acres in 3 days can now flood 600 acres in 9 days and not have red rice or grassYou can hold off pumping water and allow rainfall to supply part of your irrigation needs. If growers could cut well use by 1/3, they could save $ 15 to $ 20 per acre... 5. Herbicide resistant rice technologies could potentially reduce insecticide treatments for rice water weevil. Delaying flood and relying on chemical weed control could keep rice water weevil larvae from damaging seedling roots. If you delay flood for 2 or 3 weeks, you can get the same effect as if you applied a treatment of Furadan. 6. Control of red rice could change crop rotation and expand rice acreage. It could enable farmers with certain soil types to have greater flexibility. We have about 3 million acres of rice in the U.S. but we have 6 million acres of land that is suitable for rice. At least ½ of that 6 million acres is in soybeans or another crop each year...Instead of rotating to another crop, rice growers could rotate to another type of
[CTRL] Here we go again....GMO?
-Caveat Lector- This is interesting..."CLEARFIELD RICE" If they get this into RICE seed, then what will happen? As I take it, this is spearheaded by American Cyanamid. Here is the memo I was sent: I am in the Farming/Seed Industry. ** What is a GMO and a non-GMO ? GMO = Genetically Modified Organism * The herbicide tolerance trait in Cyanamid's Clearfield* rice crop is derived from a naturally occurring resistant line developed, identified, and patented at the LSU Ag Center by Dr, Tim Croughan using traditional and enhanced breeding techniques. Because they contain NO foreign genetic material ( DNA ) they are considered NON-GMO... So Clearfield rice is a Non GMO...This was discovered in 1993 by Tim Croughan at LSU . He found a single rice plant in a haystack of millions that showed after application of IMI the plant could break down the active ingredient * Any plant derived from a process whereby foreign DNA is inserted into the genome of the plant is considered a genetically modified organism or GMO... What production changes will we see with this new technology that will give the farmer more flexibility from the start of the growing season... 1. Mudding it in may go the way of the dinosaurs. Discontinuing the practice of trying to bury red rice seed in flooded fields has a lot of benefits. When the farmer puts his equipment into the field and works in the water, that's the worse thing you can do with a tractor due to reducing the life of everything on the tractor.. 2. When chemical control of red rice arrives, growers will be able to choose water seeding or dry seeding and put more money on the bottom line.. In Southwest Louisiana, Water seeding costs 5% more and yields are reduced by 5% ; farmers use roughly 100 lbs of seed with drill seeding and 150 lbs of seed with water seeding. 3. Flexibility in application of herbicides with Clearfield rice is another plus. Right now we have a narrow window when most of our herbicides are applied. For example, Propanil must be applied when the weeds are very small and re-flooded within a 3-5 day period to maintain grass control...On Clearfield rice, growers will make a Premerge or Preplant soil application and the residual control will give the producer a month or more to apply the sequential treatment of Clearfield* herbicide (with or without a tank-mix partner depending on weed spectrum). The application of a pre-plant incorporated or pre-emerge followed by a pre-flood application ( 4 to 5 leaf rice) is likely to give the best weed control. So far in the research we have seen, you will get 85% control of red rice and most weeds and grasses with just the preplant or premerge application and then the preflood application will finalize your weed control plus reduce the possibility of cross pollination of red rice. The weak areas in weed control have been sedges, coffeebean, and joint vetch but different tank mixes have been giving us good control. In 1999, an extensive research program is being conducted by State Universities and Cyanamid's researchers on the herbicide rate, application timing, climatic influences, soil type influences, and the weed control spectrum. 4. This flexibility will give you better use of your irrigation investments - With Propanil, you need to flood up within 3 days, whereas with Clearfield, you've got the next few weeks. So a well that formerly could have flooded up 200 acres in 3 days can now flood 600 acres in 9 days and not have red rice or grassYou can hold off pumping water and allow rainfall to supply part of your irrigation needs. If growers could cut well use by 1/3, they could save $ 15 to $ 20 per acre... 5. Herbicide resistant rice technologies could potentially reduce insecticide treatments for rice water weevil. Delaying flood and relying on chemical weed control could keep rice water weevil larvae from damaging seedling roots. If you delay flood for 2 or 3 weeks, you can get the same effect as if you applied a treatment of Furadan. 6. Control of red rice could change crop rotation and expand rice acreage. It could enable farmers with certain soil types to have greater flexibility. We have about 3 million acres of rice in the U.S. but we have 6 million acres of land that is suitable for rice. At least ½ of that 6 million acres is in soybeans or another crop each year...Instead of rotating to another crop, rice growers could rotate to another type of herbicide resistant rice - they could rotate between Clearfield rice, Liberty Link rice, and Roundup Ready rice. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS ABOUT CLEARFIELD* RICE How will Cyanamid manage the distribution of CLEARFIELD* Rice ? Cyanamid is working closely with public university rice seed breeding programs for the development of IMIDAZOLINONE TOLERANT "CLEARFIELD*" RICE . However,
