THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2016
VOL. 94 | NO. 11 | $4.25
Large crops Record pea and lentil crops are expected to be seeded this year. | P.6
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Approval delays for new soybean means canola market safe for now BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM
NEW ORLEANS, La. — The U.S. soybean industry is struggling to take back the market it has lost to high oleic canola from Canada. The original goal of the industry
was to have full commercial introduction of two high oleic soybean traits by 2014. The reality is that won’t happen until 2017 or later. Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer are having difficulty achieving global regulatory approval for their traits.
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Monsanto is awaiting approval of its Vistive Gold soybeans in the European Union and China. The EU has approved Monsanto’s high oleic trait and its Roundup Ready 2 Yield trait individually but it has yet to approve the two stacked together.
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DuPont is slightly ahead of Monsanto. It has had Chinese approval since 2011 but it is still awaiting the stacked trait approval for its Plenish and Roundup Ready traits from the EU. SEE SOYBEAN DELAY, PAGE 4
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