On farm seed treating. Crop Life says...

[dave4441]

Klaus is correct. In a prior life I was a seed treatment rep with Gustafson. We registered Baytan, which had some real strong activity on leaf disease. Problem was accuracy was extremely important to the point that we would only sell to certified applicators. I believe it was fairly hot and accuracy and seed safety was critical. Fast forward a few years and product died because it wasn't on farm apply able. Some of this is basically new chemistry with new requirements beyond what was the old EZTreater could achieve. To the point that the company had to let the product die instead of move it forward. I think that product was light years ahead of the seed treatments on mkt today and wonder if it doesn't have a huge fit today. I believe it had poor fusarium control which was the buzz word then, and today. And for the most part plays little to no part in fusarium levels in crop. But that's a totally different thread.

[Hopperbin]

Basically this regulation puts about 5 more zeros behind the value of the patent. At a cost to us the producers.

[Hopperbin]

Dave your post has nothi g to do with klause's.

[Hopperbin]

Ok yes it does.

[sumdumguy]

The government is letting the chemical companies run the show. What else is new?

[Crazyharrows]

All about taking away our right to save seed plain and simple!!!!

[Hopalong]

Father used to talk about treating seed with formalin.
Can remember the days of mercury seed treatment.
Times change, let's agree to move on, certainly if other countries are doing so.

[farmaholic]

Provide me an avenue to recoup the extra costs and I'm all for change. Keep taking more and more, and I am left needing to "adjust", I prefer the status quo.

If it weren't for succession, less than afew more years and someone else could be the Industries' Bitch...

[seedman]

Hopper, the same thing was attempted in the US, and the ASTA pushed back hard. Now, it is merely a "guideline" ref- http://seed-treatment-guide.com/.
There is a discussion on The Combine Forum that may shed some light on this topic.
http://www.thecombineforum.com/forums/23-crop-production/185929-no-more-farm-seed-treating.html