Is it worth a try?

[Hopperbin]

All organic farmers should pay a tua every year, joke, bad joke.

[cchurch]

After paying these losers $50/acre for many many years, I think they should take there TUA and shove it.

[parsley]

I heard that hopper. lol You will pay for that. LOL

Choosing organic isn't only about better prices. It's about concluding that the alternative is a financial and property game farmers simply cannot win. Especially a few years down the road. Pars

[furrowtickler]

It would be suicide for them if they took a thousand farmers to court at the same time who are in desperate measures, no?

[parsley]

Legal Counsel could care less if there are 2,000. Pars

[Partners]

Don't worry about the TUA...we have neighbors who have been Brown Bagging for yrs and they have not been checked....

[wd9]

Buy a few bags of seed same variety and say they were put on the field at a low seeding rate. There are no rules on rate with licensing per pound now. Use the seed next year. Just saying.

[parsley]

I hate myself for doing this, BUT.....


'Don't worry about the TUA...we have neighbors who have been Brown Bagging the variety Partner developed, for yrs and they have not been checked....

Partner doesn't deserve the money.'

Pars

[Partners]

We DON"T brown bag...we want the highest possible yields...Buy cert.seed for the whole farm...

[stubblejumper]

Percy Schmeiser

[parsley]

Partner:

My point was this:

If anyone like you, Partner, or any registered seed grower, or entrepreneur, or company, including Monsanto, develops and registers a plant life, should they be enjoy the money from that patent, and be paid for someone else using their patent or the fruits of the patent?

Pars

[parsley]

And yes, stubblejumper, Percy comes to mind.

If a Percy type guy was honestly contaminated, there is a travesty of what is right and wrong in the world of unintended consequences caused by genetic modification.

If a Percy type guy was a schemer and being "cute", then I defend Monsanto's right to defend their property. Pars

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

I agree with you.

The big guys have got greedy on the TUA... by putting it on the bag instead of the acres.

For those who truly want to seed 7 lb/ac... it is a rip off. If we learn to grow canola at 2lb/ac seeding rate... I am doubtful the TUA on the seed alone is good for our industry or for reducing the risk of growing Canola.

[SASKFARMER3]

Simply lesson learned here. Monsanto and Bayer own you and your farm. Its your responsibility to get rid of the weed they created. IT was all passed under law and farmers let it slip buy with no fight by believing BS that they would come out ahead of the game. HA HA. we loose again.

[hobbyfrmr]

Hopper, Parsley is right, sometimes farmers go to organic production because they do not see a future in the conventional market. There are many reasons to change, most of them have been described (in detail) right here on AV. This one is quite obvious, the real fact is, canola/soybean farmers are Monsanto and Bayers' bitch. Some farmers dont like that, they may not become near as financially successful as the neighbors, but there is a little tiny consolation for this "hippy" knowing I can say "not thank you, I do not need product X today." I still go to the pub and have beers with farming neighbors, but when the seed/spray/re seeding details start coming out, I kind of feel sorry for them. When they see my crops in August, and my 20 year old farm equipment, they kind of feel sorry for me. I guess it balances out.