The future looks good for seed companies

[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.