{"id":1853,"date":"2019-01-02T17:25:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T09:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2019-01-02T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T09:25:37","slug":"aussie-hesitation-gm-canola-costly-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/01\/02\/aussie-hesitation-gm-canola-costly-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie hesitation on GM canola a costly mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers say Australia\u2019s decision to delay seeding GM canola had negative economic and environmental implications<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s decision to delay the adoption of genetically modified canola cost farmers money but more significantly cost the environment, found a study by Canadian and Australian researchers released earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Stuart Smyth and Scott Biden from the University of Saskatchewan and David Hudson from SGA Solutions in Melbourne, Australia, used Canadian GM canola data to model what the delay in innovation cost Australian farmers between 2004 and 2014.<\/p>\n

They found a net economic loss in foregone canola production of about 1.1 million tonnes and a cost of AU$485.6 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing that surprised me more than the economics was just how substantial the environmental impacts were,\u201d said Smyth. \u201cIt was seven million in additional field passes and 8.7 million litres of fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n

An additional 6.5 million kilograms of inputs were applied, and an additional 24.2 million kg of greenhouse gas emissions released, the study found.<\/p>\n

Although GM canola cultivation was approved in Australia in 2003, the federal government allowed individual states to implement moratoria.<\/p>\n

The Australian Oilseeds Federation said New South Wales and Victoria lifted their moratoria in 2007, and Western Australia lifted its ban a year later.<\/p>\n

These three states account for about 80 percent of total canola production, said Nick Goddard by e-mail.<\/p>\n

However, South Australia and Tasmania, which produce less than 20 percent of the country\u2019s canola, still have their bans in place.<\/p>\n

Two government reviews are underway in South Australia and results are expected in the first quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n

Smyth said Australia is starting to recognize what it\u2019s losing through bans that are based on emotion rather than science.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite ridiculous,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re not even allowed to rail canola through (South Australia). All the canola either has to go by boat from say Sydney or Melbourne areas around to Perth or the other way, or they have to rail it all the way through northern Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said political interference in regulatory approvals costs money and Australian canola growers now know this.<\/p>\n

Environmental groups that push for bans often say there is no cost but he said Australia is a good example of what really happens.<\/p>\n

Smyth was recently in Egypt for a global meeting on biodiversity where GM adoption was one of the topics. Two years ago at the same conference he met with Sudanese officials shortly after that country approved Bt cotton. The insect damage had become so bad that many farmers had to stop growing the crop.<\/p>\n

They have launched a survey of more than 500 cotton growers who are now growing the GM crop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe survey was done just after seeding in June and we\u2019ll follow up just after their harvest in January and get a sense as to what\u2019s changed in terms of their input costs regarding chemicals and what\u2019s changed in terms of yield just simply from this meeting two years ago,\u201d Smyth said.<\/p>\n

Weed control is a big issue in Australia. Although GM canola wasn\u2019t allowed everywhere, Australian growers have access to more herbicide-tolerant varieties developed through mutagenesis than do Canadian growers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that they haven\u2019t had the technology at all but there would be the ability to have the improved weed control just simply due to the efficiencies that Roundup Ready canola was able to offer to farmers,\u201d Smyth said.<\/p>\n

In Western Australia, where about 50 percent of all the country\u2019s canola is grown, GM canola production is 34 percent of the crop. That\u2019s higher than the national average of 24 percent because farmers are using it to manage resistant rye grass.<\/p>\n

Poor weed control is a huge problem in crops around the world, and the researchers said GM traits can control the weeds and therefore increase yield.<\/p>\n

Smyth said the next logical step is to gather data from Europe, probably France, Germany and the United Kingdom, to see if similar comparisons can be made.<\/p>\n

He said the Australia study provides good evidence to push back on environmental groups who ignore the science.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere we\u2019ve quantified something that has caused more damage to the environment so I think the question (that) now needs to be put to the environmental groups is \u2018We\u2019ve documented a technology that reduces the environmental impact, why won\u2019t you come on board and support these technologies?\u2019\u201d Smyth said.<\/p>\n

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