>>Anyhow it seems the irony of ironies that JAPAN, the home of Monsanto, would quit buying wheat from the US if it is Roundup proof!
In what alternate universe?
“Monsanto Company is a publicly traded American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.”
Perhaps you were thinking of Mothra, whose home is in Japan?
I guess I erred, it’s a name comprised of syllables that are common in Japanese like Mitsubishi. (Is that “mit” lots of “subishi”?) It was founded in 1901 by a fellow named Queeny whose wife’s middle (maiden?) name was Monsanto. The first thing it made was the sugar substitute saccharin. Better living thru chemistry. Or worse living if done wrong.