Plant Breeders’ Rights and Farmers Know the New Rules!

[tweety]

Furrow, why on earth would you agree to those terms?

Now ask yourself, who didn't do their homework, you or the elevator? Are you that hungry for the next bleeding edge to get a 1/2 bushel advantage - maybe - that you are willing to sign what sounds like the most ridiculous marketing plan in the world for you? Full well knowing you can't keep the seed?

The industry knows farmers are the most gullible animal on the planet, maybe there is just too much money in farming because if there wasn't a little more thought would go into decisions like that.

Please farmers, wake up and do your homework. Don't set dumbass precedents. Farmers are the customers, don't shape your destiny with stupidity then whine like a school girl after the fact.

Farmers could, like other parts of the world, own the cereals seed industry and shape it exactly to our benefit. But we are just too ****ing stupid, and lazy, and whiners extraordinaire.

[furrowtickler]

Not doing my homework ? Lol - go *** your hat .
We were told that no prob we could use our own seed - but the rules were changed after we seeded it . It was just an 80 ac little wake up call.
Ask the facts before you go on a little rant and call guys stupid and school girls. We did not seed the farm to it , just enough to get seed if it was worth while .
We constantly do on farm trials to see what variety or fertility works best for us - if it don't work or fertility does not make sense we don't do it .
As far as being gullible lol - again go *** your hat, no variety goes even into trials on our farm unless it has the potential to make us money , then maybe a few acres in side by sides to see first hand.

[furrowtickler]

Just a little fact for tweety - we do more canola , wheat variety and fertility trials that all four of the local line co's put together. We have close to 40 different canola variety and fertility trials and about 15 different wheat fertility and variety trials on the go each year .
Nothing goes mainstream on the farm until it shows a significant return for us.
We also don't recommend large scale sales of any new canola variety unless we see it perform well in our trials and trials throughout the local area for two to three years.

[TOM4CWB]

furrow,

If you know what is up on wheat varieties... why did you pay the extra... and grow that wheat!

There are public varieties like CDC Go... that have no levy and royalty... and are top quality... to the extent that it is the highest registered variety in the CWRS class for western Canada... and a great blending wheat that if marketed with that in mind... should net a good premium!!!

You are free to waste your money... but please do not blame that on me!!!

[TOM4CWB]

Highest CWRS for

GLUTEN STRENGTH !!!

CDC GO

CGC results

[furrowtickler]

Store shelves are full of gluten free products so how valuable is high gluten - when did they start paying premiums on high gluten ?

[furrowtickler]

CDC Go is not on my list - low Fus resistance and not midge tolerant . You obviously sell it , hopefully it works for your area - good for you.

[furrowtickler]

I have yet to see any premiums offered by anyone for CDC Go around here . Let me know if you see any - it may be worth the extra cost of more fungicide and pesticide for midge and time to do it. I am more interested in Fus resistance than anything.

[tweety]

furrow, the rules changed? Did they send out a new contract that you blindly signed? didn't get a contract in the first place?

Sounds fishy - even more.

[tweety]

Three years of canola trials and.... Oh look, its replaced.

[furrowtickler]

Contract was signed after - agreed won't do it again - but that's not the point . We would have never signed it knowing that we could not keep the seed.
So your the first to the trough on canola varieties though ? Sounds fishy lol

[tweety]

Actually no i do advancement plots before the seed is even registered. Then by the time you start doing trials i've done them for 2 years and its not bleeding edge.

I know you do lots of trials, look into it.

So why did you sign to not regrow the seed when you already had possession of the seed?

[furrowtickler]

Lol. again you ASSume - we do advancement trials as well for 2 years before they are avail to the GP. I would imagine we are talkin the same thing - or you were.

[tweety]

Oh look, we have the same size dick. Its easy to get caught up in the disresepectful slam culture of agriville.

What is scary are some are going straight to commercial with minimal field testing.

[TOM4CWB]

FYI, Furrow.

I have never grown CDC Go.
But it is a public variety that is royalty free and has no restrictions for sales... No PBR... open to all who want to grow it.