Anybody have clearfield or conventional canola?

[grassfarmer]

We keep trying to tell consumers what they should want... so it matches with what is easy for us.

Only industry in the world where the customer is wrong and we need to keep telling them that... And the big ag companies have done a great job of getting farmers to do their PR work for them...

I'm with you on all that Klause - particularly the latter part - never understood why unpaid farmers fight the PR campaign for big Ag.

[macdon02]

We are setting up for an Irish potato famine. Essentially a monoculture of seed from Monsanto or Bayer or a "stack" of their varieties combined. Just saying. If ma nature decides to throw a curve we are screwed. What happened to the early varieties? All given up for more yield. If the season shortens up by 1 or 2 weeks, then what? Is there any difference in wheat varieties today? The focus on milling properties has really narrowed the focus on what the right variety to grow is

[tweety]

Klause, farmers have only ever had privilege, seed holders have rights. Farmers never have nor never will have rights in an act that is not for them. PBRA is for holders of seed.

Consumers don't know what they want, they are told what they want - ever hear of advertising? They would never have even known what a GMO was or cared if the organic industry wouldn't have spent billions making it out to be the most evil thing the world has ever seen - just to sell the most unsustainable food on the planet.

Now you have idiots running around not buying food that has DNA in it. They want organic because it doesn't have the DNA's in it. That Klause, is the consumer telling what they want. Ridiculous.