Posted by paul on May 26, 2015 at 22:47:25 from (66.44.132.180):
In Reply to: Specialty Corn crop posted by John in La on May 26, 2015 at 19:13:21:
Most countries like to protect their own industries and limit imports. I belive most countries limiting gmo imports are not concerned about gmo, but are concerned about protecting their farmers from imports.
The world grows corn, yellow #2, all piled together. Good stuff. A bulk commodity.
If you want something different than that, its up to you to keep it seperate and test it to be different and handled differently.
Nongmo corn is fairly easy to grow, but it means the farmer is more likely to need to handle much more insecticides, which can be more harmful down on the farm. Weed control is not that difficult with normal corn herbicides. I'd guess on the farm I'd want 20 cents extra net; but seperate handling and shipping and fewer markets and contracts demanding odd delivery times all cost -me- more, so I would need closer to $.50-75 bonus to see my actual .20 increase.
Farmers isolate and grow crops 98%+ pure all the time for seed, etc so that's no big deal, you just grow a buffer, stagger pollination times if you can, and so on. The real kicker is keeping harvest separated, dust from hauling a gmo crop can mess up samples from a nongmo crop, just a few kernels caught in the cover tarp, and so on.
I live less than a mile from my coop that buys grain from me. Take the grain up,with a tractor and gravity wagons. Costs me a few cents a bu or less..... The nongmo/ organic buyer is technically 5 miles from me but that is their rail terminal. The place they have farmers unload is 23 miles from me, much too far for a tractor and wagons, I would need to buy a good truck licence and insurance, and then they tell me when they want the grain (when they get a trains ul put together), so I need to build on farm storage. Then haul the grain 23 miles instead of less than one. And they collect the non gmo grain, clean it some, and haul it right past my farm again to the 5 mile away place, and run it through that elevator - a small one - on the railroad.
All of this extra storage and extra handling does add up, add costs, and use up fuel.
It seems a fools chase to me, and I can't seem to net an extra .20 cents a bu, I've looked into it, and the risks are just too big for the small to zero bonus I might net.
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