Corn growers want faster access to new biotechnology traits. There was frustration expressed at the recent National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) Corn Congress over excessive regulatory delays in the international marketplace.
“Particularly countries that don’t have what we would call a functioning approval process,” said Don Duvall, a farmer in Southern Illinois and chairman of NCGA’s Freedom to Operate Action Team.
“Many times they’re quite arbitrary in the traits they approve and the timeline they approve them on,” he said.
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