I actually live in the county referenced and the article is a joke. Dave’s Chevron has excellent coffee, but it’s not where the farmers hang. He went there because it’s across the street from PGG. Either he never found any of the actual watering holes or he’s not mentioning them to maintain the appearance of strategic incompetence.
I tend to agree with the sabotage by eco-terrorists theory for the reasons mentioned in passing in the article. Dry land wheat farming is not the target market for RU ready wheat because they chem fallow the fields so it wasn’t tested here and accidental mixing or cross pollination is just not a viable theory. However, deliberately scattering some stolen seeds in field that is slated to be chem fallowed guarantees discovery.
So the real question is who the hell stole the seeds from Monsanto, were they stolen from storage or from test plots.
It may have been an attempt to manipulate wheat prices in general or advantage another country’s wheat crop specifically and be economic manipulation rather than eco-terror. Find the thief, find the answer.
I did read a story today about the FBI busting some Chinese nationals for stealing seed from test plots and trying to smuggle them out of the country.
Your point is as valid as any....it is interesting that once these GM seeds grow and spread more seeds, it will cause problems. I read about the Chinese stealing seeds too....
The book Wheat Belly Cookbook talks about the new wheat that is meant to grow bigger crops in the fields being a problem to digestion, weight, and disease etc. Those were wheat seeds I meant to site originally, not GM wheat, it was confusing with the GM corn. Controversial stuff.