Posted: Saturday, March 21, 2009 11:45 am

More than three-quarters of wheat growers responding to a recent National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) survey approved a petition supporting the commercialization of biotechnology in wheat. The survey was commissioned by NAWG as a project of the NAWG Foundation to measure and document the level of support of biotech trait commercialization among wheat growers.

"Until now, there has only been speculation about the breadth of grower support for biotechnology in wheat," said NAWG CEO Daren Coppock.  "This petition was designed to gather those answers from across our wheat producing areas, and now we have an objective and clear answer."

More information about the petition and survey is available online at www.wheatworld.org/biotech. Items posted there include the full petition language, an expanded Q and A about the effort and numerical break-outs of results by state and farm size.