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FARM, AGRIBUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT USDA'S DELAY IN APPROVING BIO TRAITS
Jul. 26, 2013
National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) reports:
Farm and agriculture supplier groups submitted comments last week to USDA describing their concerns that the preparation of full-scale environmental impact statements (EISs) for certain herbicide-tolerant biotech crops will delay their deregulation with no additional benefit to the environment.
The crops in question are herbicide-resistant corn, soybean and cotton varieties developed by Dow AgroSciences and Monsanto.
The groups told regulators the delayed review process, which will last until summer 2014 at the earliest, would hurt farmers working to combat weeds and weed resistance using crop traits as part of environmentally-sustainable practices such as no-till and low-till farming.
Signatories of the comments included NAWG, the Agricultural Retailers Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Seed Trade Association, the Biotechnology Industry Organization and commodity organizations representing growers of soybeans, sugar beets, corn and cotton.
The full comments are available online at www.wheatworld.org/biotech.
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