Bayer maybe you can't get any more out of us!

[Hamloc]

Last year I payed 505 a bag for L 241-C. If I understand correctly Bayer is going to raise my seed cost 20% or 100 dollars a bag. My only thought is that I have heard good things about Canterra 1990 and CS2000. This is a Canadian company it might be a good time to switch. I like Invigor canola but sometimes enough is enough.

[may-be]

I have quit using Bayer products 12 years ago. When I had a problem with their product I found them absolutely ridicules to talk to. I talked to the higher ups on the phone. They should have at least sent a more knowledgeable person out to investigate the problem. Life is the same on my farm without them. But them buying a big competitor sure ekes me.

[farmaholic]

I actually haven't been in touch with my retailer to see how bad the increase is so maybe I shouldn't have commented. ...but I stand by all my comments. I also believe what someone else once posted....a good part of the yeild gains might be coming from agronony as much as genetics. I compare the marketing of canola seed to that of Gillette marketing razors.....they keep "re-inventing" the same product with minor improvements at more cost.

[biglentil]

parasites

[Guest]

Like sf3 said this one is easy . Just tell them have priced themselves out of market . We had one field of bayer canola last year and were done with them if they are this ignorant and out of touch . We have been growing a competetive variety 2 years and outyielded invigor both years . At $3 a pound less . Its all marketing nothing more and as maybe said their follow up on problems is nothing short of a joke . We have to stop somewhere and this is an excellent place to start .You missed the boat BAYER!!!

[may-be]

I also agree agronomy has a lot to do with yield gains. When I started farming I bought canola seed from a guy that grew a few acres of foundation seed every year. I seeded it with no seed treatment, no fungicide and a lot less fertilizer. My projections were 38 bpa average. Today it is about 47. With all the extra input costs and the constant promise of new and improved higher yields it should be 60.

[tweety]

ok tweet I'll bite since your always on the side of the grain companies Fert companies seed companies etc.

It's rather simple switching out of Bayer totally let rep and dealers know Friday booked and took lower priced seed at last years price back in August!

Maybe it's time for farmers to finally stand up to these parasites and take our industry back.


Or do like you tweet keep telling them it's all roses and great no problem here just some guys like to complain! Yea we had a ruff time with a little water but we'll make it another year!

God some are so blind!

Ya but you won't switch. You'll keep buying Bayer because its the best, right? Nothing comes close, right? And those ads, Invigor will make you proud, right? And you will just buy it no matter the cost next year, right?

Its worked the last 15 years, why not one more.

[ColevilleH2S]

I see in the SaskSeed guide another company has received support of registration for 5 Glufosinate tolerant Canola varieties. Who here would grow those just to prove a point to Bayer?

[SASKFARMER]

Ah little tweety bird maybe it's time for a three province change. The new Coke sucked when they thought as a company let's change the system people are stupid they still will buy it.
Oh but people had enough of there shit and the company had to change back.

Bayer is no different it's time for a change!

[farmaholic]

After all the slamming, lambasting and scolding lets hand out a bouquet and thank the canola seed companies for all that "free" canola seed they handed out for the guys who got froze out in the spring of 2015.

I'm not sure if there was any intended sarcasm in that comment or not?