Comments from seed royalty meeting

[bucket]

I hope to hear from the people that went to the meeting in Saskatoon on December 4.....

I was disappointed. ...


Comments....

[tmyrfield]

I hope to hear from the people that went to the meeting in Saskatoon on December 4.....

I was disappointed. ...


Comments....

I was next door at cargill's market sense.
Talked to an older fellow on the way to parking lot. 1st thing he said was this would never have happened if the cwb was still around.
I said, funny the cwb never came up once during the whole day in my room. lol
told him to have a safe trip home.

[farmaholic]

I wasn't there. And tell us what you heard.....please.

[bucket]

I wasn't there. And tell us what you heard.....please.

From the handout...

"""" A range of high performing varieties would be available once a new model is in place, some eligible for end point royalties/farm saved seed royalties and others not...""""

So I asked the question..." qualify high performing varieties?"""

the answer was quality and higher yields....stop....had to wait for later to finish...

But later I commented that higher yields in an infrastructure system that can't handle it and quality that no one wants...?????? not sure they answered that...


But I had a really good discussion with government people at the table outlining things like would ended up paying for the triffid flax fiasco, the fact no one wants quality and gave examples of durum pricing and grading.....etc....they listened but I thought the meeting would be more like that...

[bucket]

BTW some things never change ...same faces which I find interesting...

[farmaholic]

So there not releasing the "hostages"(new and improved varieties) until their "yearly ransom" can be collected?

[TASFarms]

There is always new varieties coming out.

[bucket]

....at my table discussion I asked why Syngenta put their hybrid wheat on hold.....no answer ....but they don't think its for royalty reason......OK....I am just stupid then.

[Oliver88]

So there not releasing the "hostages"(new and improved varieties) until their "yearly ransom" can be collected?

Interesting that seed companies expect gullible farmers to line up to pay a seed tax.
Imagine volunteering to pay a tax “yearly ransom” without proof there will be an end benefit.

The varieties we have now already seem to congest our questionable railway and shipping service.

Craziness.

[bucket]

And where does this end.....next over to the livestock industry to charge a royalty on the bulls or cows I use...right....