GM triffid Flax and Pedigreed Seed

[Choice2U]

After reading this and much more, I just don't get how buying certified seed that is tested and qualifies as "non-triffid" is any better than using bin run seed that is tested and qualifies as "non-triffid". So why are we going the certified seed route??????? I am guessing that "the industry" is selling this misleading new protocol to the Europeans in hopes that the suckers believe it is better. What happens when Triffid still shows up like before because this protocol does not change anything?

[VK58]

IMHO the solution is simple, make it a requirement,as suggested tested seed and tested harvested product to be able to market the flaxseed. However the certified seed price should be fixed because no matter how you rationalize the results, the CSGA,seed growers, seed companies all have to some degree a level of fault in this fiasco.
For them to benefit financially from this is assinine.
Everyone needs to take their lumps and move forward.
ps. Had a chem rep around the farm about a month ago, they had surveyed 170 farms only 2 had indicated any intention to grow flax. In our part of the world there is too many options to put up with this BS,you have to be of the contrarian point of view to grow flax.

[bucket]

So maybe a forced 1:1 seed exchange would work.

You need 400 bushels of certified seed for 2010. You sell 400 bushels of flax in the growers name and bring him the cheque when you pick up that "industry cleansing certified flax seed".

I just wish the seed growers would put their money where their mouth is and take some responsibility for this. It would go a long way to supporting them in the future.

[oneoff]

Lets have some real names and organizations asociated with who is making theses decisions. This type of thing just evolves to the point of the press reporting an action plan as being a mandatory obligation of a whole farming sector that has had its suggestions ignored. Maybe that's because the regulators are culpable and the seed developers; farm supply wings and seed growers associations are going to be huge winners.
Damn them all.

[TOM4CWB]

Folks,

Have you forgotten that EU countries require pedigreed planting seed?

When the stewardship program was put together; the implementation of pedigreed seed was part of the negotiation to allow flax below .01% into the EU.

I truly think you folks are missing the issues we face.

WE can clean this GM event... out of western Canada... if that is what we want to do. LLRice and Starlink corn are examples of cleanups.

In 2001 we had a canola GM event that had the wrong RR gene event... the acres and seed were all destroyed.

It is gone.

We too can fix this... if we are disciplined and decide to do so.

No one said it would be 'easy' but then what worthwhile in life... is easy?

We farmers are 'can' people... nothing is impossible!

[parsley]

<a href="http://parsleysnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/02/editorial-marketing-certified-flax-seed.html"> Is tom4cwb now the spokesman for the 'learn from this and move on' crowd? </a>

[wmoebis]

Maybe I have missed something, but will flax growers be required to seed cert seed every year or can they use bin run next year?

[parsley]

And after you've clicked on the last post, maybe you could tell us if the flax seedgrowers are already stocking up on wheat seed for the next go around, only next time tom4cwb will be issuing a joint statment with the Wheat Board....

"C'mon guys, the Wheat Board will only market wheat from pedigreed seed so let's clean er up. Don't blame us.It's your fault. BUT.. Buy pedigreed seed."

Click on the link above, twice, tom. Maybe three times. Pars

[parsley]

You're headed for obeying legislation for forced use of certified seed.

Purebred cattle breeders did it years ago and laughed themselves all the way to the bank.

[parsley]

China recently bought farmland land near the Melville area. It sold for around $60T a quarter. It was purchased by a Calgary corporation buying land for the Chinese.

China is a communist country. Even Google walked out of China last week.

Take a good look at your neighbor that you've lived beside for a hundred years, and decide if you kinda like working beside him and his kids.

Decide if money for faceless shareholders, for a quickie moment, is your be all end all, because the decisions you make in ag these days, may come back to bite you in the ass.

And of course, it's your choice. But it's an important choice. Pars