UK Rally Sunday 16th July 2000 50 Acre GM Maize Trial site Southern Union of Resistance to Genetic Engineering (SURGE) are facilitating a protest against the only GM Farmscale Trial in the South West of England. The site is fifty acres of Maize, a split field site, half Glufosinate resistant (Genetically Modified), half non-Glufosinate resistant On Sunday 16th.July we welcome everyone to meet at Nether Compton Village Hall from 1.00 pm. There will be music, (Seize The Day, and more!) and speakers followed by a walk across the site, which has a footpath running across it. All concerned citizens are invited and we welcome families and children. Please bring a picnic lunch. Directions: Find England, then Dorset, then Sherborne, from Sherborne take the A30 signposted Yeovil. A couple of miles down the road, on the right, is asignpost to Nether Compton. Follow the lanes for approx. four miles to the village hall. The turning to the field is about three miles after the Nether Compton turning and is signposted, Over Compton. The site is on corner of this turning and borders the A30. Look for the bit _without_ weeds! SURGE is a loose co-alition of concerned citizens and is not affiliated to any particular organisation.