USDA approves new seed

[ESSO82]

I am already preaching placing there new technologies in the right places and marking the fields. I go to quite a few calls a year of cotton and beans being burnt to pieces because the sprayed the wrong chemical on the field.

[JABIII]

ESSO, we just turbo tilled and have a growing (pun intended) problem with cockleburr spreading like wildfire. At this point, how would you recommend we handle it?

[quackaddict]

I can send you my Springer for a few days once they start heading out... she'll have every damn one of them attached to her. It'll really cut down on your future crops.

[Slaya]

You can get some but they are high as giraffe pussy. Edit. Had a brain fart and was thinking about sweet corn. There have been some RR sunflowers planted around though.

Expound on this, please, because Cadre is high as Giraffe pussy, as well.

[ProvidenceSwamper]

I'm completely ignorant on this topic, but why in the hell would US farmers have to wait on China's approval before using a GM seed?

We export a shit-ton of grain to China. They review it just like the EPA and Dept of Ag because they are eating, feeding, using it just like us. Dow could technically go ahead with it without China's approval but would be running the risk of grain being turned down and problems down the road. Syngenta ran into this before.

[Southernduck]

Expound on this, please, because Cadre is high as Giraffe pussy, as well.

Why do you need RR sunflowers? Treflan incorporated, Dual pre, and Cadre + Poast early post to catch your grass and broadleaf escapes should do the trick. I already see the HUGE amounts of RR pigweed that would come from the use of RR sunflowers by the dove hunters of SC.