{"id":66,"date":"2008-10-15T10:19:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T09:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-05-01T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T12:22:07","slug":"cbcltd-reviews-the-soybean-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"European feed supply security threatened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"AR-SA;\">CB&amp;CLtd to\u00a0enlighten Sherpa Group at the EC<\/span><span style=\"AR-SA;\"><!--more--><\/span><span style=\"Calibri;\"><span style=\"AR-SA;\">On behalf of COCERAL, FEFAC and the UECBV Cardy-Brown and Co Ltd reviewed the impact of &#8216;not yet&#8217; authorised GM&#8217;s and the zero tolerance rules for Europe&#8217;s feed and meat sector.<\/span>The results of\u00a0which will be used to persuade the European Commission to adjust their authorisation process of new GM events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"justify;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\">The world\u2019s centres of grain and oilseed production are set to plant the next generation of biotech seeds.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This \u2018second generation\u2019 includes a new and improved version of Monsanto\u2019s\u00a0herbicide tolerant\u00a0soybeans \u2013RoundUp 2 Yield (RR2Y)\u00a0which is expected to enjoy even greater penetration of soybean acreages.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The majority of the US, Argentine and Brazilian soybean acres in 2010 will be planted with seeds containing the RR2Y event. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"justify;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\">Pressure grows between industry trade associations (representing grain traders, meat processors and the feed industry) and the European Commission to authorise soybeans containing RR2Y. RR2Y represents the tip of the iceberg in terms of new traits. Within the next coming years more than 20 new traits are expected to enter the market in the US, Brazil and Argentina for soybeans alone. With Europe highly dependent on imports of soybeans from these locations the outlook looks murky for the European meat industry which has suffered devastating feed prices over the last 18 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"justify;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\">Biotech events for other crops are also developing rapidly \u2013 with not only new generation technology coming through but many different biotech events are now \u2018stacked\u2019 within one seed, particularly seen in corn seeds, some of the events are approved for import into the EU, some of them not. <!--nextpage-->The result is;\u00a0a massive loss of\u00a0imports of corn, maize gluten and DDG\u2019s\u00a0that Europe could use in feed or food. This will result in a major loss of competitivity for the European meat industry as it will be forced to use\u00a0more expensive raw materials for feed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"justify;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\">Not only are GM crops becoming the norm in the world outside the European Union but supply of non-GM is also threatened as the Zero tolerance of GM content rules imposed on grain and oilseed imports are impossible to live up to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"justify;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\">Cardy-Brown&amp;Co Ltd was commissioned by COCERAL, FEFAC and UECBV to complete a review of the current situation facing the European meat market. The report was delivered for the European Commissions Sherpa group and feedback is expected soon. The report is available for down load at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fefac.org\/file.pdf?FileID=15694&amp;CacheMode=Fresh\">http:\/\/www.fefac.org\/file.pdf?FileID=15694&amp;CacheMode=Fresh<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CB&amp;CLtd to\u00a0enlighten Sherpa Group at the EC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}