Seed company liability limitations

[wd9]

I'm not a seed grower, but have done a
lot of trials over the years, properly
and side by side. I don't jump to the
newest bleeding edge varieties, i let
others make that mistake. Unfortunately
when there is new ones every year, its
getting hard to do.

I am concerned over the farmers that
have started the... if i'm big enough
and whine enough even though i ****ed up
my field, the seed company will comp my
seed.

I don't matter as i'm not 'important' to
a retailer of company and will NEVER get
my seed credited.

Trouble is, i'm paying for the ones that
do, and it really pisses me off!

[fjlip]

DeKalb 2013 seed guide states 7345 is 6.3 standability compared to 6.4 for 7375. 5.5 for L150, 5.6 for 45H29.
It's earlier and easier to swath and harvest.
What's not to buy?

I say that is NOT the seed I bought but some "twisted sister" reject, off breed.
Terrible quality control. Misrepresented in advertising.

Fields are next to each other, same seeding tool and depth, weather, fertilizer, rate, correct spray on time. Only diff is the seed.

5440 swathed today is 3 times the swath of 7345. Standing quite good.

[Hopperbin]

standability, yield, disease resistance and we pay for it. We bought it.

[Puckbag]

@ Hopperbin

I'm a seed grower...I'm not sure if I understand exactly where you are coming from when you tell me to eff off. Please enlighten me, I truly would like to know whats up.

[wd9]

I tend to put the seed in the bin, not
the swath.

Great comments and yup some real
frustrations too, somebody get Hopper a
drink, but where should the
responsibility of the seed company end?

At a crop stage? A date? If it
germinates in a lab to 90% does it stop
after the seed bag is put in your hands?
I would think the last one.

If you don't like a variety, don't grow
it again.

The first varieties sold out are the
newest and most expensive seeds. What
message does that send? Um, get a new
variety to be booked even before the
combine rolls on last years new variety.

Guess, what boys, its frickin working
and only gonna get worse.

[nicolaas]

it would be good to see more govt or canola council independent trials. enough with the trials put on by the companys. We pay taxes, and we pay checkoff

[Hopperbin]

Sorry to be ranting here of lately. But I am also a bit tired of the guys multiplying our planting seed trying to tell us its the best thing when all they are trying to do is sell the seed they have multiplied. Trying to make a buck. Seed variety may be no better than the last.

[fjlip]

By what we read, they might be getting worse.
Buying a new hyped variety guarantees zero. Those in test plots could not be the same as seed you buy for the next year. We have to trust them, chance a whole year. I was told to try several.

[SASKFARMER3]

Im not crying. What I am trying to point
out to some that just dont get it. WE
have been sold a shit variety that
replaced a decent variety and now pay
$10.00 a lb for it.
As a farmer Ill gladly pay 10 for seed
that is a true performer but the variety
L150 is $1.00 lb seed at best. Walmart
would sell it.
Its all about the
MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SASKFARMER3]

Off the topic but their is a field north
of Yorkton that had top dressing of diffident cocktails of Foliar fertilizer
on Barley crop. Well the guy was
swathing the fields yesterday and guess
what the whole field looks exactly the
same. Not one plot was higher or a
different color or bigger heads. So as a
Old HoeGrass rep yous to say we hit the
area for plots with 200Lbs fert and then
spray for disease three or four times
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