Re: Kona Farmers Update

shane wrote:
On Mar 20, 8:09 am, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
be...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:48:11 GMT, Steve <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:18:06 -1000, be...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Now days, all corn seeds have to be bought, essentially from
Monsanto. Why? The corn bug ( a caterpillar) was ruining the
corn
crop so instead of a bi logical control, Monsanto created a
plant
(by inserting a gene that actually kills that caterpillar) and
you
need to buy those seeds to have a crop. We independent farmers
don't want to go there.


Corn is not a fair comparison to coffee.

The corn plant planted for the past 9000 years is a domesticated
form
of the plant teosinte and cannot reproduce itself naturally.

That being said, I am not wild about the idea of genetically
modified
foods.

How are coffee trees propigated? I know seed trees like apples and
oranges are mainly propigated by grafting to preserve the desired
traits.

The other question is whether cross-pollination has a noticeable
effect on the coffee bean like it does with many of the "SH2" hybrids
of corn?

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