I am actually a farmer, and we farm on a fairly large scale in Saskatchewan. We farm out of the city of Regina. Our daughter farms north of Saskatoon and they've been very successful with canola. If there are any issues with respect to canola, on their farm, etc., they think it was a wonderful idea to grow the canola they can. It's been a cash crop and a saviour for their farm, the canola area.
We're too far south, but fortunately we've diversified into the pulse crops. There was a time when we were large barley and wheat growers, along with our cattle operation, but we've shifted into the peas and lentils. That's been a saviour for us compared to the people who haven't adopted it and in the last two or three years stayed with the conventional wheat and have a rotational threat.
To answer your question about the issues of segregation, etc., the farmers in our area really don't bring up the GMO stuff. In our area, with respect to the wheat and barley that's grown, the issues, they never think about them, I don't think. That wouldn't be true for all farmers, but I think the issue of biotech.... The topic is so complicated, they likely don't even know what the word even means. There are a lot of people still farming out there who have never heard of it and wouldn't know how to define biotechnology or a GMO.
I think the big issue in our area is structural change and the huge growth of farm size. That concerns people: the rapid change in technology in the last ten years, which is also machine equipment, farm-size-related, which may be or may not use GMO products. That's my feeling.