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  • From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] OT: wheat hybrids
  • Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:53:24 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Actually, there >is< a significant yield advantage with hybrid wheat. It's
just not trivial to make hybrid wheat via mass production.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Angermayer <hangermayer@isp.com>
>Sent: Oct 16, 2010 11:15 AM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Revealed: how seed market is controlled by Monsanto,
> Syngenta, Bayer, Dow & DuPont
>
>Re: Seed Saving - Correction
>
>I've been conversing w/ a Kansas wheat farmer and apparently seed dynamics
>for wheat are different vs. other row crops. That is, there are no
>hybrids available in the U.S. for wheat. So most KS farmers wheat farmers
>DO save back wheat seed. There's just little economic return in purcasing
>wheat seed for which no heterosis exists.
>
>Mark
>KS
>
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