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Dr. Raoul Robinson
industry. It provides lasting
protection to disease and insect pests
but there's Tess opportunity for seed
and chemical companies to generate
profits through the strategy.
"There is a very real possibility
we can have both adequate food and
freedom from crop protection
chemicals but few people seem to be
aware of this," Robinson says.
Stoskopf says there's little
industry or institutional support for
the development of crop traits that do
not fall into step with the direction of
conventional agriculture. The retired
University of Guelph professor feels
he can now offer this point of view
freely.
"The public plant breeders are still
there but emphasizing biotech-
nology... There's no money to breed
a crop Tike spelt. Companies like
Monsanto want to move genes. What
we're looking at (with on-farm
projects) is classical breeding,"
Stoskopf says.
Stoskopf and Robinson are
supportive of the work Ross and
Kucyk are carrying out as
individuals. They also feel there's
room for the development of farmer -
led plant breeding clubs in Canada.
At Fergus, Ross attempted to
create such a club. While there was
some interest generated, it wasn't
enough to get started.
"It didn't get going mainly
because you need eight or nine
people to make it successful and we
had just five who had expressed an
interest," Ross explains.
"That doesn't mean we've
forgotten about the idea. Things may
change in a year or two."0