From: "NLP Wessex" <nlpwessex@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Japan - 66% of food companies to go non-GM ?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:53:52 -0000
This news is likely to further encourage US farmers to switch back to
non-gm varieties in 2000 which often are higher yielding anyway - see
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/gmagric.htm .
NATURAL LAW PARTY WESSEX
nlpwessex@bigfoot.com
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex
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Japan grain-non-GM crops bought with high premiums
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JAPAN: November 2, 1999
TOKYO - Japanese have recently bought corn and soybeans grown exclusively
from non genetically modified (GM) seeds, at premiums roughly 40-50 percent
higher than those for mixed GM and non-GM crops, traders said.
Premiums for non-GM, U.S.-grown corn were purchased at premiums of 40-50
cents a bushel more than the cost of genetically mixed varieties.
As for soybeans grown in the U.S. states of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan (IOM)
that contain higher protein and are suitable for food use, non-GM soybeans
were purchased at premiums of 50-60 cents a bushel over unsegregated IOM
soybeans.
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