While high wind will extend the distance pollen will travel, it would also tend to shorten the life of the pollen. If this farmer in Oregon really found a substantial growth of glyphosate resistant wheat in his pasture and he hadn’t raised wheat in the prior year in an immediately adjacent field, the wheat didn’t get there by accidental wind drift.
Interesting. I think this is also interesting in that this comes out right around the same time as the big anti-Monsanto protests. Do I think it is beyond the realm of possibility that some anti-GMO greenpissers got a hold of some of the “Roundup Ready” wheat seeds and purposely planted them, perhaps with the consent of the farmer who might be looking for a more profitable payday from a lawsuit against the deep pockets of Monsanto than he would see from just growing wheat? Just saying.
The genetically modified wheat sprouted this spring in a field that grew winter wheat last year. When the farmer sprayed the so-called volunteer plants with a glyphosate herbicide, some of them unexpectedly survived. Samples were then sent to Oregon State University and to the USDA for analysis.
And Monsanto says that they stopped field testing of the GMO wheat in 2005 after the FDA drug their feet in rendering an opinion on it after they determined there was no market for it. All of a sudden, now it suddenly pops up in a field in 2013 and the farmer just happens to spray Round Up on it and just happens to call someone from Oregon State University?