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Jim Bole, a senior official with Agriculture Canada, said last week that the department would not make further investment in Roundup Ready wheat due to concerns about market acceptance.
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Jim Bole, a senior official with Agriculture Canada, said last week that the department would not make further investment in Roundup Ready wheat due to concerns about market acceptance.
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Jim Bole, director of cereal research for Agriculture Canada, said the department will make no further investment in the crop it has developed with Monsanto since 1997."There's still some testing going on that does involve our scientists, . . . but Ag.Canada is not contributing more funds toward it," he said in an interview from Winnipeg."We're no longer developing Roundup Ready wheat with Monsanto."
Asked if the department's decision reflects concern about whether Canada's wheat customers would accept the new strain of wheat, Mr. Bole replied, "Yes, I think it does."
The contract between Agriculture Canada and Monsanto is confidential, but Mr. Bole said the company invested $1.3-million while the department invested $500,000.
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Mr. Bole said Agriculture Canada scientists had learned a lot from working with Monsanto, and the collaboration seemed promising at the outset in 1997.