To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] OT: wheat hybrids
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:25:35 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
If any hybrid wheat seed is commercially available, it will be scarce. Like
I said, it's not trivial to make hybrid wheat on a mass scale and without
being able to mass produce the seed, there probably is not enough money in it
for the big boys to make it happen.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Angermayer <hangermayer@isp.com>
>Sent: Oct 17, 2010 9:08 AM
>To: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers
><nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] OT: wheat hybrids
>
>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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