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  • From: "Mark Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>
  • To: "Anton Callaway" <marillen@earthlink.net>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] OT: wheat hybrids
  • Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 08:08:02 -0500

Is it available for purchase in the U.S.? I was told there were no hybrids
available here.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Callaway"
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:53 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] OT: wheat hybrids


> 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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