Canterra Seeds and Richardson's partner on Enterprise Durum

[shaney]

<a href="http://www.realagriculture.com/wp-
content/uploads/2011/06/BJD072605ac_strongfiel
d_durum.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-
thumbnail wp-image-5822"
title="BJD072605ac_strongfield_durum"
src="http://www.realagriculture.com/wp-
content/uploads/2011/06/BJD072605ac_strongfiel
d_durum-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150"
height="150" /></a>The end of the single desk in
the West means that things will change in a number
of areas. One of those areas is market development
of crops like durum. Whereas the Canadian Wheat
Board held the bulk of that responsibility under the
single desk, that job now has to be spread out to
other companies looking to find and develop
markets for their products.

It's under that new landscape that <a
href="http://www.canterra.com/">Canterra
Seeds</a> and <a
href="http://www.richardson.ca/products-and-
services/pioneer">Richardson</a> have come
together for the Enterprise Durum variety. The
variety is exclusive to Richardson Pioneer and was
developed in Western Canada. The partnership is
beneficial to farmers from both an agronomic
standpoint, from the seed company aspect, but also
the marketing and market development strategy
standpoint as well. I spoke to Brent Derkatch of
Canterra Seeds about their new partnership at <a
href="http://www.cropweek.com/cpw.html">Cropw
eek 2012</a> in Saskatoon.

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[shaney]

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[shaney]

[bigzee]

Just what we need another "IP" durum. First it was Navigator, then Patterson's Eurostar, and now Enterprise. I was in the Navigator program for a couple yrs till i realized how unfair it was to pay such an enormous price for seed, then have to give it all back at such low level returns. Course it had to go back to Viterra. Enterprise will be the same thing as the rest. They will offer a so called "premium" to get the gullable ones to grow it, then when they get enough acres there goes the premium. There is no real insentive to grow any IP variety. It will be too bad if all of a sudden that is all there is to grow is these varieties, seed costs will kill us.

[shaney]

Sorry to break it to you but in the new open wheat
market these kinds of IP programs are going to
become very much the norm. We are going to say
more of them and less of just grow it and we will
market it.

[checking]

Totally agree with you, bigzee, on your post.

However, Navigator didn't have to be IP for Viterra. It was the cheap sell out of our WGRF checkoff dollars by WGRF that developed it that cause Navigator to slip from public domain. It is the reason why I have ever since asked for the checkoff return. WGRF can't be trusted that it wouldn't do the same thing again. No real problem for them though. They'll just get their funding indirectly from farmers through rail cap overages with a government wink (perk).

It doesn't have to be shaney's way if enough of us refuse to buy in. Just transfer over what a pissed off public on the control of the internet can cause. We could have the same power over the control of seed.

[shaney]

Checking,

My way? Its not exactly my way. Not participating
in an IP opportunity because you have to buy
certified seed seems odd but its your decision.

Lots of farmers, handlers and processors want
these programs and as I mentioned they are going
to grow in drastic numbers now that the CWB is
gone.

If you don't believe its an opportunity for your farm
then you are correct, you don't have to participate.

[ajl]

Totally agree with BigZee. The problem is
that the companies cannot resist the
opportunity to manage the process in order
to harvest farmer equity. ie the grade is
never good enough along with over priced
seed. If our checkoff money is developing
these varieties, they need to have more
than one company distribute it otherwise
it guarantees monopoly abuse. All
monopolies private and public will abuse.

[monte]

I like these contracts if they make me more
money. I have the choice.