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GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon

posted by martyb on Monday July 02 2018, @11:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-wait-until-the-Ents-get-loose dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

High Country News reports:

[...] Scotts got permission from the USDA to plant larger fields for seed production. Farmers sowed 80 acres of bentgrass in Canyon County, Idaho, and 420 acres in Jefferson County, Oregon, north of Bend. The Oregon Department of Agriculture picked the site - an irrigated island in the sagebrush sea - to keep the plant far from the Willamette Valley. There, on the western side of the mountains, farmers grow forage and turf grass for a $1 billion-a-year seed industry.

Then two windstorms swept through the eastern Oregon fields in August of 2013, scattering flea-sized seeds well beyond the designated control area. Roundup-resistant pollen fertilized conventional bentgrass plants as far as 13 miles away.

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  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Monday July 02 2018, @03:17PM (1 child)

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Monday July 02 2018, @03:17PM (#701399)

    I am not making any claim one way or another. I just surmise that if a defense has not been established by case law it could have by mutual agreement or by an actual law. This would be in the interest of the industry but as you suggest a clever legal strategy (AKA corruption) might prevent that.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 02 2018, @06:49PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday July 02 2018, @06:49PM (#701528)

    would be in the interest of the industry

    I'd rather say that it would be in the interest of the farming industry, peoples of the world, general economy, etc. Not in the interests of the individual or even collective GMO industry players.

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