Replies to post #41624 on Applied DNA Sciences Inc (APDN)

[RodeKroet]

Seems Impetus has co-op with International Cotton Association ICA (also presenting at ITMF2016) since 2013...link

Gonna find out more about Fibermark Solutions as well link and link

[mcsharkey]

F---ing A it's political! Kudos Rocket and Otis, you're keeping us hopping. On both your statement, since MONEY and politics go hand in hand, we got a whopping ass double butt load of money tied up here.

Rocket, you posted on us being sat between Monsanto and Bayer in some up coming cocktail hour. Not to be repetitive, F----ing AAAAAA. Rocket, trying to catch up, rather than flunk out on your homework assignment of the cotton gin estimates. I do want to get graded on the word though, and fancy graphics.

You got us the list of California and Arizona cotton gins rated as MONSANTO qualified. This gets political with Monsanto becoming the monopoly and providing Genetically Modified seeds, collected by each gin and resold to the authorized growers.

This has been going on a while now. This <LINK> gets you a 2012 trade journal white paper on licensing requirements of ROUND UP FLEX seeds to contracted growers.

Here's a couple of excerpts from a 2009 Western Farmers Press article on when California growers en-mass signed up with Monsanto:

Roundup Flex Pima Approved
Nov 25, 2009 by Harry Cline
AND THE <LINK TO THE FULL ARTICLE>. And the excerpts:
"While Monsanto pursues international regulatory approval for the trait cottonseed, the company has accepted the California cotton industry’s stewardship plan, which requires every seed handler from growers to the gins to the seed crusher to sign a stewardship agreement that limits distribution of the cotton seed to the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

“Cotton farmers have told us that the Genuity Roundup Ready Flex trait is a great value to them,” said Tom Schaefer, Monsanto cotton traits marketing lead, in explaining why Monsanto agreed to the unusual stewardship program before international regulatory clearance has been achieved.

Dow AgroSciences has one Pima variety (PhytoGen PHY 805 RF) with the Genuity Roundup Ready Flex trait to sell sale under the stewardship program for 2010. It is a selection from PhytoGen’s very popular PHY 800, non-biotech variety.

“We are so pleased to be able to offer this new Pima variety to California growers,” said Duane Canfield, market specialist for Dow AgroSciences. “The Genuity Roundup Ready Flex trait in Pima will give California cotton growers all of the weed control benefits in Pima they have enjoyed in Acala.”

This stewardship breakthrough was achieved through the efforts of the California Cotton Growers and Ginners Association and its member gins, the National Cotton Council, and American Cotton Producers Association, as well as J.G. Boswell Co."

My thought (and Who TF am I?) is we only tagged what the retailers purchased through SUPIMA last year.

This year, we got this as the latest report I can find, and this is in cotton getting exported.

Side note. Maybe WELLSPUN debacle will help US spinners and loomers get a foothold back in textile manufacturing.

<Link to Full SUPIMA Reporting Page

American Pima Exports
Thursday, October 13, 2016
For the week ending October 13, 2016 and shipments through October 6, 2016

OCTOBER 13 — There were 12,100 new net sales reported for the week versus 23,600 bales in sales the previous week. Currently registered export sales for the 2016/17 crop year total 355,400 bales. This level of sales is 335.9% of the sales level at the same time last year when 105,800 bales in sales had already been registered. Current shipments stand at 152.7% of last year with 96,800 bales shipped versus 63,400 bales shipped at the same time last year.

All I got Boss(es).

Gotta get my ass in gear and fix a fence line.

GLTUA
Mike Sharkey

[Hyrdflyr]

I don't see these "cotton test competitors" as competitors for ADNAS for the simple reason that they are analyzing the DNA of the cotton itself to determine it's identification, where as ADNAS is marking the product at the source with a proprietary taggant that is virtually indestructible, easily identifiable with a scanner, and can be read to determine much more than the species itself, such as place grown, grower, Gin processor etc.

Some of these "identifiers" have elsewhere admitted that their ability to identify the species of cotton is compromised by the processes of bleaching, dying, etc to prepare the raw cotton for weaving and milling.