Japan’s wheat-import suspension worries state growers | Local News | The Seattle Times

Japan’s wheat-import suspension worries state growers | Local News | The Seattle Times

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 apan’s decision last week to suspend imports of wheat from the U.S. sent waves of concern throughout the Northwest wheat industry for one big reason: the type involved.

Northwest farmers are the main U.S. growers of soft white wheat, the type Japan suspended last week because genetically modified wheat plants were found growing on a farm in Oregon.
Japan ordered other types, but a wheat-import official told The Wall Street Journal it will “monitor the progress” of a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) investigation before deciding about soft white wheat. Japan is a major wheat importer, buying about $1 billion in wheat each year from the U.S.
Although the USDA has not said what type of genetically modified wheat it found in Oregon, the farm most recently grew soft white. Farmworkers realized they might be dealing with a type of modified wheat when the plants survived repeated dousings of Monsanto’s Roundup recently. Subsequent tests verified it was genetically modified wheat.

Monsanto said the unidentified northeast Oregon farm is miles from where the company tested genetically modified wheat almost a decade ago. The wheat Monsanto had tested was designed to withstand treatment by the herbicide Roundup.
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note   some lands do not want unmarked frankenfoods for their citizens