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Garth Hodges
General Manager of Oilseeds
Bayer CropScience
Garth Hodges is the General Manager
of Oilseeds for Bayer CropScience –
BioScience, based in Calgary, Canada. In
this context he leads the global team
responsible for developing the worldwide
canola, oil seed rape and juncea
research, development, breeding and
business. Hodges has held this position
since his arrival in Canada in September
2002. Previous to that, Hodges was
responsible for global licensing of
biotechnology traits at Aventis
CropScience’s headquarters in Lyon,
France. |
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Canola Production Predictions
“Global canola production is
shifting into new areas…” |
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15 by 2015
“We in the industry are going to
have to do quite a lot of things
between now and then to be able
to achieve that goal.” |
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Financial Crisis’ Impact on
Ag
“For now the financial crisis
has made us more prudent…but it
hasn’t really affected the
long-term goals…” |
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Beneficial Registration
Changes
“What’s in the works now is also
to shorten the time it takes to
put our products into the
market.” |
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Variety Testing
“What we’d like to do is provide
growers and breeders with the
information of the genetic
potential these products have…” |
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