Tell Me What You Understand It to Mean When You Sign a Document Attesting to The Variety You Wish to

[oneoff]

When you make a declaration that what you are delivering to an elevator is a certain variety; and that variety alone; how many farmers have ever worried about the 0.0001% or 0.01% or heaven forbid the certified seed off variety tolerance that may be present. Remember that buyer may well have a "zero tolerance" for that minute contaminant; and that even though there are many explanations for your variety to not be 100% pure; you the farmer will be the first one to have to answer. Otherwise why are the legal documents required to be signed by the farmer.
You don't get guarantees in writing from your seed and chemical suppliers; do you? And you probably don't seriously negotiate the terms of the standard agreements either? After all everbody has to sign them? Or do we have to automatically have to do what we are told? Shame on us all.

[TOM4CWB]

Oneoff,

Purity is generally .1% for certified seed.

For the grades of wheat and durum, have a look at the CGC grade tables:

http://www.grainscanada.gc.ca/oggg-gocg/04/oggg-gocg-4h-eng.htm

#1 in most wheat grades is 1.5% variety and class tolerance rising as the grade decreases.

This is why with flax the Pedigreed Certified Seed system can not assure .01% or less variety off types.

THe CGC deals with soybeans and corn as well. Starlink corn and non-gm soybeans are instances where the Canadian system has dealt with this problem before.

If you want flax with zero triffid gm have fun. I would like to see who would assure this standard... now that the triffid gm event has been found in practically every variety that is commercially produced! This could well mean all breeders stocks are contaminated... only time will tell if this is infact the case.

[oneoff]

Thankyou for your comments. It's much appreciated.

[oneoff]

Thankyou for your comments Tom. It's much appreciated.
One of the points I have tried to make is that for varieties such as Triffid; there was supposed to be a nil chance that it could ever spread. The prior research showed flax didn't cross pollinate, it was non invasive, there was no chance it could spread to weedy relatives etc etc.
Thus the logic must have been that there could never be a %0.01 or %0.1 or any other level of Triffid in anything. I have yet to definatively hear how this Triffid contaminnation occurence happened; and if that is how it is supposed to be left as a satisfactory explaanation; then it is totally unaccepatable to me.
I suspect that there was a comedy of errors; all the way from inevitable mixing by those who we would expect to most careful; on through the possibility of inevitable mistakes every time any product is handled. It is not a matter of if mixing will happen; but only a matter of when and how often they happen. That lesson has not been taken to heart by those who made Triffid; and those who owned the seed and intended to make profits from it. Those people must be held accountable.
And for the next release of flax or wheat or whatever; the same lesson applies. Or else the exact same contamination is also sure to occur. Who has released a press release saying that there are new rules for the next GM varieties.

[Hopperbin]

Tom I must argue with you on the triffid issue. For off types that is one thing, for GM that is a totally another type of off type. You cannot compare triffid gm to other off type varieties in a sample. Not fare. I would never buy seed from you.

[TOM4CWB]

Hopper,

I don't get it. What have I done wrong?

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