The future looks good for seed companies

[mustardman]

gustgd. I think the Nfu is based on Present wgrf funding working with Public breeding .
The key is the Gov't not gutting public institutions !
I sat on the wgrf for a number of years and the work that gets funded is very beneficial.

Unfortunately the word Public is a dirty word to this gov't. Even if it is the most successful and beneficial to the Country

[SASKFARMER3]

Gust when we started growing canola you weren't even thought of. Hell when I cleaned our own you weren't even thought of. Hell when we were the great Monsanto experiment into the new hybrids you were probably in bantam or peewee hockey.
Canola paid the bills big time all the way through my farming carreeer but guess what since the new seed model that is in place with canola with no end in sight for patents to end guess what canola price for seed has gotton out of control.
Funny how some cant see that we had varieties years ago that did the same or better than those grown today. Year in year out in East and NE.
Weather has changed and yes I am totally pissed at the new weather cycle but loving this winter with limited precipitation.
Canola is the model that wheat will take and when Your my age and I am dead and gone you to will realize F$%K the Asshole was right.
Have a great day.
AH farming.

[bucket]

Sf3

Not sure some young guys can understand what you are telling them.

To paraphrase - Sf3 has been there and done that.

He has probably forgotten more than the punks on here will ever know.

The guys spewing the benefits haven't looked 25 years down the road. They buy into this shit about the world needs more food. Never run out yet.

More research into higher yielding crop is idiotic until you get a transportation system that can handle it.

Study Brazil. Once they get their transportation system bettered, canada won't matter. We have fallen so far behind in transportation it's not funny.

The wcwga just got enlightened by the bnsf railroad at their meeting. Maybe now they will start to push the government about the archaic railways in this country.

[SASKFARMER3]

CP books record profit, more grain revenue in 2014. Increased revenue from Canadian and US grain traffic alike helped boost Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) to a record full-year profit in 2014. Calgary-based CP on Thursday reported net income of $1.476 billion on $6.62 billion for the year ending Dec. 31, up from $875 million on $6.133 billion in 2013.

[bucket]

They were also given a rubber stamped increase in rates.

Diesel fuel is down just wait until next year.

And doing nothing for the next crisis like when k and s put there exports on line. KS are currently building six 175 car unit trains to move their potash in 2 years.

[wmoebis]

The livestock industry is having same research funding problems. Why hasn't the cattle industry adopted similar practice?

Where commercial producer buys higher priced breeding stock from breeder to get genetics he wants, then pay a royalty, back to breeder, on every calf sold from those breeding lines, forever.

[mustardman]

IF the gov't would have called this the "Corporate Control Of SEEDS ACT" instead of the mom and apple pie name "Agricultural Growth Act"

Maybe Just Maybe farmers would be acting.

[gustgd]

Sask3 restating your thesis does not prove it
You still haven't provided an alternative

Mustard in real dollars public funding for varietal research has been diminishing since at least 1993 this didn't start with the Conservatives.
I did take in DePauw's presentation. He and every other breeder and institution from the CDC to each research station is in favour of C-18. Until someone can show me others who publicly disagree. I'm going to say consensus on the issue. To be fair to his presentation he is not in favour of the defunding that has happened.

Wmbonisis I think a version of what you stated is happening in livestock. Check out the breeding programs of pork, chicken, dairy. Everything except beef cattle.

[bucket]

You guys have to realize that people pushing these things also think by John deere putting a different decal and side panels on a combine they are buying something much improved.

Alot of canola varieties are technically the same but in a different bag by a different company. Much like chemical. Just repackaged. It just depends for some if they like the bag colors or the new decals and side panels. And if grandpas trust fund has run out for bragging rights to say they bought 3/4 of a pound of seed with a bushel of canola.

[sumdumguy]

The government has washed its hands of almost all programs and services out West including publicly funded research. Just what we voted for? Lets give them another term to finish it off!

[bucket]

Here is perfect example of what is wrong with the current government.

Instead of closing down the Indian head tree farm ritz could have just started charging for trees on a cost recovery to individuals and a little more to commercial interests.

Instead he just shit canned it.

I have no interest in it but it seems odd to throw away years of solid work. He could have changed the mandate to include more of what the public is looking for and extended it from the U of S.

Same with community pasture that will be owned by corporate interests under the disguise of the nature conservancy of canada/ducks unlimited within a decade.