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Sorry, what Canadian grain imports have anything to do with glyphosate? There are no varieties of Wheat, Oats, or Barley registered in Canada that a resistant

Sorry, what Canadian grain imports have anything to do with glyphosate? There are no varieties of Wheat, Oats, or Barley registered in Canada that a resistant to glyphosate.

yarky 5y ago
[here](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-canada-durum-wheat-dispute-1.4191615 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-canada-durum-wheat-dispu...) is the story. The point being glyphosate is widely used in Canada to increase yield and italians didn't like that either.
- JamisonM 5y ago
  Yeah, in oats now the harvest is managed in terms of if a pre-harvest desiccant was applied crops are binned and handled separately. I dislike this being spelled out in terms of "increasing yield" as it is actually more about managing quality. Pre-harvest applications of glyphosate are mostly a thing of the past in wheat anyway, the varieties dry down better now - it was mostly a artifact of the Canadian transition from drying crops in windrows to leaving them stand. The genetics have caught up now.
bobsmooth 5y ago
They're comparing Mexico banning GMOs to stop Us corn imports to Italy requiring labelling to stop Canadian grain imports.
sampo 5y ago
> what Canadian grain imports have anything to do with glyphosate? You want wheat (and other grains) to be dry before harvest. Harvesting when wet increases losses due mold growth. Wet stems cause sticking and blocking in the harvest machinery. In many countries it's common to apply a defoliant: You kill or half-kill the foliage of the crop plants, and wait a small number of days, so grains and stems get drier before the harvest. This use of glyphosate has nothing to do GMOs (there is no GMO wheat in markets anywhere). In a small number of countries, it's forbidden to use chemicals (plant poisons) to force desiccation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation https://saifood.ca/crop-desiccation/ https://saifood.ca/crop-desiccation/
- JamisonM 5y ago
  "Plant poisons" eh?

Sorry, what Canadian grain imports have anything to do with glyphosate? There are no varieties of Wheat, Oats, or Barley registered in Canada that a resistant to glyphosate.

yarky 5y ago

[here](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-canada-durum-wheat-dispute-1.4191615 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-canada-durum-wheat-dispu...) is the story. The point being glyphosate is widely used in Canada to increase yield and italians didn't like that either.

JamisonM 5y ago
Yeah, in oats now the harvest is managed in terms of if a pre-harvest desiccant was applied crops are binned and handled separately. I dislike this being spelled out in terms of "increasing yield" as it is actually more about managing quality. Pre-harvest applications of glyphosate are mostly a thing of the past in wheat anyway, the varieties dry down better now - it was mostly a artifact of the Canadian transition from drying crops in windrows to leaving them stand. The genetics have caught up now.

bobsmooth 5y ago

They're comparing Mexico banning GMOs to stop Us corn imports to Italy requiring labelling to stop Canadian grain imports.

sampo 5y ago

> what Canadian grain imports have anything to do with glyphosate? You want wheat (and other grains) to be dry before harvest. Harvesting when wet increases losses due mold growth. Wet stems cause sticking and blocking in the harvest machinery. In many countries it's common to apply a defoliant: You kill or half-kill the foliage of the crop plants, and wait a small number of days, so grains and stems get drier before the harvest. This use of glyphosate has nothing to do GMOs (there is no GMO wheat in markets anywhere). In a small number of countries, it's forbidden to use chemicals (plant poisons) to force desiccation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation https://saifood.ca/crop-desiccation/ https://saifood.ca/crop-desiccation/

JamisonM 5y ago
"Plant poisons" eh?