Ag Secretary to Brazil & GM Wheat Report

Ag Secretary to Brazil & GM Wheat Report plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack recently traveled to Brazil to discuss two areas of common interest between the U.S. and Brazil - everything from asking Brazil to live up to its commitment on wheat quotas to Brazil’s testing requirements for U.S. pork products and more.

VILSACK: The need to continue to advocate for the use of bio-technology crops around the world and to have regulatory process in countries like China that are better synchronized with the regulatory process in the United States and Brazil so that we can get product and new product into the fields sooner as we address the food security issues and that we really work together to create new export opportunities particularly in the biofuel and bio-product area. We think there are tremendous, unlimited opportunities for both of our countries in expanding export markets in these areas where we have common interest.

Washington State University has released the results of a study into that small amount of genetically modified wheat found earlier this year in Oregon. The study checked more than 20-thousand individual plots and found none of the plants showed the glyphosate resistance found in the fields of an Oregon farmer. The incident set off a chain-reaction in some of the wheat export market.

Now passing the farming torch. Susan Carter has the story.

(USDA Report)

Thanks Susan. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.