WHAT IN THE HELL ARE THE U.S.D.A. IN WASHINGTON,D.C. DOING TAMPERING/MEDELLING WITH SEEDS, AND THE COMMERCE OF THE AMERICAN FARMER!?! IS THERE NO END TO WHAT THESE TWEEDS IN THE CAPITOL WILL INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN? SOUNDS TO ME LIKE SOMEONE SHOULD GIVE THEM SOME REAL "WORK" TO DO;AS IT IS, THE LOT OF THEM BACK UP TO THE PAY TABLE(FEDERAL TROUGH)AND WE,THE CITIZENRY PAY THEIR SALARIES.TIME FOR OUR FARMERS TO RETHINK HUMILITY & GENTLENESS.that is,other than the(spit) Gentleman'Farmers'who haven't rolled over for the conglomerates.WASHINGTON BETS YOU'LL BE ANNOYED FOR AWHILE,AND THEN,WHAT THE HECK;YOU'LL COME AROUND. IF YOU DON'T........WELL,WE'RE "FEDERAL",YOU KNOW.DON'T YOU KNOW WHO WE ARE!? YOU'RE JUST A DIRT-BAG farmer. When is enough,enough my capons. : North Dakota Farmers Angry -
: Can No Longer Buy Non-GE Seeds
: http://www.purefood.org/ge/angryfarmers.cfm
: By Jerry W. Kram
: The Bismark (North Dakota) Tribune 3-20-1
: 3-27-1
: Excerpts: Wiley was informed that his sample had tested
: positive for genetically modified varieties. The level of
: contamination was 1.37 percent, which was too much for the
: Japanese. 'I was stunned and sick to my stomach,' Wiley
: said. 'I finally went into the house to tell my wife we had
: just lost $ 6,000 because of a neighbor's planting
: decision.' Other producers who sell into markets that
: prohibit or severely restrict the use of genetically
: modified crops are having a hard time finding seed.
: Donald Vig, an organic farmer from Valley City, said he has
: talked to seed suppliers as far away as California and
: cannot find seed guaranteed to be free of foreign genes.
: 'The organic industry has a zero tolerance for genetically
: modified crops,' Vig said.
: Rodney Nelson, a farmer from Amenia, is also looking for
: soybean seed free of genetically modified varieties. Nelson
: is being sued by Monsanto, producer of Roundup Ready
: soybeans, for growing their variety of soybeans without
: buying seed from the company. "I want soybean seed
: that's guaranteed not to contain genetically engineered
: material,' Nelson said. 'When I asked my seed dealer for a
: guarantee, he laughed at me..." _____
: Indiana Farmers Getting The Bad News On Biotech "Why
: Didn't You Warn Me About GMO's?"
: www.DirectAg.com articles. 3/23/2001, or
: http://www.directag.com/directag/news/article.jhtml?article_id=1000991
: Excerpts: "I came here this morning feeling pretty
: good," the farmer continued. "But now you've got
: me very concerned about where we're going to sell our
: GMO-crops in the future. It's not right that you let us all
: get hooked growing these GMO-crops and now tell us that
: maybe we should be growing something else."
: Tom Bechman, Indiana Prairie Farmer, a Farm Progress
: Publication. Purdue Extension corn specialist Bob Nielsen
: didn't mince words when he addressed the issue of genetic
: modified organisms (GMO's) and the controversy still
: swirling throughout agriculture due to the StarLink Bt
: debacle last fall. He warned farmers that while the
: long-term potential for great benefits from biotechnology
: still existed, the short-term fall-out could actually make
: life more difficult, and perhaps even less profitable, for
: farmers who didn't manage carefully in the short term. When
: he finished his talk at the Wayne County Conservation
: Tillage Workshop in Richmond, Ind., one farmer in the crowd
: was quick about not mincing words, either.
: "Why didn't you tell us about all of these potential
: negatives a long time ago," he questioned, sharply.
: "Where have you been for the last two or three years?
: "I came here this morning feeling pretty good,"
: the farmer continued. "But now you've got me very
: concerned about where we're going to sell our GMO-crops in
: the future. It's not right that you let us all get hooked
: growing these GMO-crops and now tell us that maybe we
: should be growing something else." While Nielsen is
: never at a loss for words, he did acknowledge that the
: farmer had a point. But it wasn't just Nielsen who didn't
: see the controversy coming. He contended that it was all of
: agriculture, plus the media and even regulatory officials.
: "Six months ago, hardly anyone in Indiana even knew
: what StarLink was," Nielsen says. "It was barely
: a blip on the radar screen."... _____
: StarLink Latest - USDA Begins To Buy Up Starlink-Contaminated
: Seed
: By Randy Fabi 3-27-1
: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department this
: week sent contracts to some 300 seed companies offering to
: buy seed potentially contaminated with StarLink, a
: bioengineered corn variety not approved for human use, in
: an effort to keep it out of this year's crop, officials
: said Thursday.
: Earlier this month, the USDA said it would spend about $20
: million to purchase about 1 percent of this year's spring
: planting corn seed suspected of being tainted with
: StarLink's Cry9c protein. The protein is the key component
: that protects young plants from destructive pests... Once
: the seed is purchased by USDA, the government will destroy
: the contaminated seed by either burying it in soil at least
: one foot deep or crushing and composting it. Seed companies
: have until April 15 to decide whether to participate in the
: USDA program...
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