"The development of new reservoirs is imperative, " said Daniel Berglund, a 49-year-old rice farmer in Markham, Texas, who said he woke up at 1:15 a.m.
The erstwhile rice farmer went on to found Future Labs, a desk-conferencing forerunner of WebEx in 1991, in part on the belief that starting up a business was "the most noble thing" one could achieve in America.
Riceland became aware of the genetically altered rice in January, when a customer alerted the 9, 000 farmer-member co-operative about possible contamination.