The existence of lobby groups, Link often sees on the Internet. Those lobby members have another name: brokers.

And he really hadn't thought about it before.

Now it is really impossible to raise a group of brokers in a short period of time. He thought for a while and said, "I wonder if there's a profession for this?"

Claire smiled and said, "You guessed it." There are indeed people like that. So I say your lobbying costs will be higher. And the other side will also lobby those people. That could also increase the cost of your lobbying. ”

The cost issue, Link will consider though. However, if the Amaranth virus can be promoted, the benefits are not a problem compared to the cost.

He said, "You know people like that." ”

"We do know one person. Collaborated before. However, his fees are not low. In addition, the so-called lobbying, in addition to saliva, also requires dollars. Claire thought for a moment and said. "And it doesn't necessarily work out. Especially this time our opponents have a significantly stronger lobby. ”

Link nodded and said, "I've indeed heard that their lobby is strong. Arguably, they have become the largest seed company in the United States, in large part because of their lobby. ”

"Actually, I think if I can convince a few people, I can save the current situation. Neil said with a frown. "If there are a certain number of people on the board of directors of the Association of Organic Certification Organizations who speak up for you, it can divide organic farmers. If you want to make organic farms lean towards you, there are a certain number of farms that use our products. Organic certification organizations would not dare to include the Amaranth virus on the banned list. ”

Link listened to him and felt that Neil was quite reasonable. "If enough organic farms are used and they ban it, it will definitely make the organic food market chaotic," he laughs. Best of all, organic farms don't expect those herbicides. ”

He thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps, I can think of organic farms making some promises to alleviate their concerns about our products, which should make more people willing to use our products." ”

Thinking of this method, he felt a lot more relaxed, although he didn't know the effect yet, but it was much better than before.

He discussed some of the details with Neil. By the time he left, it was half past twelve in the morning.

Back in Ozet, he went back to his room. Although Jessica was already asleep in bed, the light in the room was still on. He knew that she must have wanted to wait for her to come back, and she should have slept according to the biological clock she had cultivated during this time. But the lights weren't turned off.

He watched her from the bedside for a while, then went to take a shower. He just lay down in bed. Jessica rolled over half-awake and half-asleep, hugged his waist, and muttered, "You're back so late!"

Link kissed her on the forehead and said, "Woke you up, go to sleep!"

Jessica didn't even open her eyes, and found a comfortable position on him: "Hmm." I'm going to work with you tomorrow!"

Before dawn, Link woke up again. He got out of bed carefully. After washing, I saw that it was not raining today and punched for a while in the back garden.

As long as the conditions are right, he still maintains the habit of boxing every morning. The weather in Ozette was good and bad, if it was sunny he would be outside, and if it was rainy he would play in the large pavilion outside the wing.

He finished punching, and it was already dawn. He went to take a shower and returned to the living room to find Jessica and Hannah both up in bed. Hannah propped up the sofa with her small hands, as if she would soften herself otherwise.

Seeing that her eyes were still hazy and her face was cute, he went over and hugged her and kissed her on the cheek, saying, "Did Hannah not sleep well last night?"

"Sleep well! But I'm still good!" Hannah rested her head on his shoulder. "Daddy, okay if you don't go to school today?"

Link knew it was because she had just woken up, and she would feel much better when she was in a moment. He smiled and said, "Hannah doesn't want to play with the kids today?"

Hannah looked up and thought for a moment, thinking that it was good to sleep, but she also wanted to play with the children. She hesitated and said, "Then I'll go to school later." Is that okay?"

Link saw the expression on her face come alive and knew that she had lifted her spirits, and said with a smile, "Of course not. The kids are definitely waiting to play with Hannah, too. Hannah is late, and they'll be unhappy. ”

"Oh, that Hannah went to school on time!"

"That's good!" Link kissed her on the cheek. Then put her down on the ground and said. "Ready for breakfast. ”

After she trotted to the restaurant, Link pulled Jessica with him.

"Did they think of a way to do it with Neil last night?"

Link nodded and said, "Think of a way to deal with the situation." But the effect is difficult to say. He told him what he had discussed with Neil last night. "Now it seems that we can only target organic farms for the time being. The other farms could only wait for the results of Meng Sandu and Bayer's products to come out. If their product works well enough, we may have to be prepared to fail. ”

"But even if we opened up the market for organic farms, we still failed. ”

Jessica has previously researched the U.S. agricultural market. Although there are many organic farms, those farms are generally smaller. Even if the total area is cumulatively large, the labor cost will increase a lot to serve these small farms. And organic farms also have more labor. Many organic farms are not affected by super weeds as much. So this market is not very discriminatory.

"We're not going to lose money anyway. "He's investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Hans, which is a lot, but now it's just one of those products that is failing. "By the fall, maybe we'll be able to recoup all the costs with our high-yielding wheat seeds. ”

"Hopefully. Jessica finally had a smile on her face when she heard what he said. "Wheat is really an easy market to get into. ”

The wheat in the United States is not seriously genetically modified, and most of it is still non-genetically modified wheat. Therefore, in the wheat seed market, as long as high yield and high quality can be guaranteed, it is much easier for high-yield wheat seeds to occupy the wheat seed market than this virus product.

"And we don't have to be completely helpless. If Meng Sandu and Baier want to deal with super weeds, they will probably still have to use genetic means. If that's the case, there's no way they can solve the weeds in the wheat fields. ”

"That is, we still have a chance, just have to wait?"

Link nodded and said, "Yes, wait for their products to come out." Superweeds are super because they are not sensitive to herbicides. Ten years ago, Bayer launched a compound herbicide that was said to be able to deal with super weeds, but the results were not satisfactory, and it was completely eliminated in two or three years. That also proves that unless a new powerful herbicide emerges, they can only use genetic means. ”

"New seeds and new herbicides!" Jessica understood what he was referring to. "But I haven't heard of them launching new seeds. ”

"That's where I'm weird too. Or maybe they plan to wait until the fall to launch a new herbicide to the market along with the seeds. ”

He helped her to sit down and continued, "If that's the case, we can't do anything about it. Even if the farmers had to wait another year, they would be willing to wait. ”

"So what do you think we can do for wheat farms?"

"That's what I thought too. But maybe we have to wait for the product they launch, after the farmer determines that it can't be used, we will have a chance. ”

After breakfast, the family of four sat in a car, and he dropped Hannah off at kindergarten and then to the bank building.

Anne was pleasantly surprised to see the two of them come to work together, "Jessica, are you okay?" she said, her eyes on Jessica's lower abdomen. It's not so obvious.

Jessica smiled and replied, "I'm fine!" so today I'm back to work. ”

Link asked the two of them to talk at the door, and he went into the office himself. He saw that some newspapers and some printed reports had been downloaded from the Internet on his desk. It's all about Benehans.

He skimmed through the headlines, some from yesterday's news, some from this morning. As he expected, the suspicion of Amaranth was even greater, and some people applauded the decision of the Association of Organic Certification Organizations: "This is the right choice to ensure the credibility of organic food!"

Seeing this, he sneered in his heart. Organic food standards in the U.S. are indeed very strict. But that's just on paper. Three years ago, organic food certification was issued exclusively by non-governmental organizations. Organic farms are subject to a large annual certification fee.

However, it was later discovered that the organic food certification body only used the certification as a certificate of honor, because they would not test the products of each organic farm, nor would they conduct various tests on the farms applying for certification, such as soil and water samples. Many farms do not use fertilizers and pesticides on the banned list, but use "organic" fertilizers that may exceed heavy metal limits, as well as organic pesticides that are not necessarily less toxic than "non-organic" pesticides.

In the beginning, organic food certification required a three-year review period. That is, the farm must produce organic food according to the standard of organic food for three years, but it cannot claim to be organic food when it is sold. Production is lower, but prices are not increasing. This means that within three years the farm will lose money.

That's why organic food in the U.S. is so much more expensive than non-organic food.

A year or five later, the U.S. government stepped in and revised the certification process for organic food. As long as no fertilizers and pesticides on the banned list are used for one year, the transition period can be entered. At this stage, it is not possible to claim to be organic, but you can use a transitional label to increase the selling price appropriately.

Three years ago, there were some concerns among the public because of the blurring between the transition period and the organic. Therefore, the transition period has been changed to the recognition of the origin of organic food, and the government departments participate in the testing of certification, and strengthen the testing of agricultural products produced in the origin of organic food. As long as the products are regularly tested three times and unscheduled three times within a year, they all meet the standards. Organic food certification can be issued.

But even then, when the number of organic farms increases, the government can only conduct random inspections of these organic farms. And most of them only check the manufacturing practices, but do not test the soil samples, water samples and products.

That also led to the fact that some organic products also had various exceedances. Another point is that the proportion of organic food sales in total food sales is basically the same as the proportion of organic food recalls to food recalls. And all are recalled because of bacterial contamination.

It can be seen that organic food is not necessarily safe.

What he finds most ridiculous is that the concept of organic actually includes ensuring the welfare of animals. For example, how much space should a cow occupy, how much free time a chicken should have, and so on.