Comments from seed royalty meeting

[jimmy]

Got a question for you guys that where at meetings. I found a old variety of wheat that’s been around for over a thousand years and it’s been yielding as good as the new stuff out there only disadvantage is it has to be swathed because of uneven maturity and lodging. I sell it into the feed market and buyer really likes it. Question is will I have to pay a royalties on it? I am not organic will organic producers have to pay royalties on the heritage wheats they grow? Some of its been around since the pyramids were built. Will this grain be forbidden to grow?

[TOM4CWB]

Hi Jimmy,
No you will not be required to pay any 'seed tax' or royalties on older public varieties. Deregistered Varieties can still also. without 'seed tax', be grown... as Canada Feed... and milled into baking products without restriction as well.
It was only contemplated that 'Plant Breeder Rights' [PBR] registered varieties... are the only ones new 'seed tax' royalties can be applied to.
I am going to work on Stopping the deregistration of our heritage cereal grains.
Cheers

Got a question for you guys that where at meetings. I found a old variety of wheat that’s been around for over a thousand years and it’s been yielding as good as the new stuff out there only disadvantage is it has to be swathed because of uneven maturity and lodging. I sell it into the feed market and buyer really likes it. Question is will I have to pay a royalties on it? I am not organic will organic producers have to pay royalties on the heritage wheats they grow? Some of its been around since the pyramids were built. Will this grain be forbidden to grow?

[bucket]

Hi Jimmy,
No you will not be required to pay any 'seed tax' or royalties on older public varieties. Deregistered Varieties can still also. without 'seed tax', be grown... as Canada Feed... and milled into baking products without restriction as well.
It was only contemplated that 'Plant Breeder Rights' [PBR] registered varieties... are the only ones new 'seed tax' royalties can be applied to.
I am going to work on Stopping the deregistration of our heritage cereal grains.
Cheers

No variety should be deregistered or reclassified without as much due diligence as it took to register and stay in the system...

The CWRS varieties that took years of development and testing took the swipe of a pen to move to CNHR...

Where is the older canola varieties like Quest or Q2 or Quantum....etc or just plain old open pollinated conventional canola....


Publicly bred and corporately deregistered.....

[jimmy]

No variety should be deregistered or reclassified without as much due diligence as it took to register and stay in the system...

The CWRS varieties that took years of development and testing took the swipe of a pen to move to CNHR...

Where is the older canola varieties like Quest or Q2 or Quantum....etc or just plain old open pollinated conventional canola....


Publicly bred and corporately deregistered.....

I agree 100%
Columbus hrsw was one of those that was chopped this year. In my area it grew as well as the newest varieties out there except maybe Brandon. Using today’s inputs and farming techniques bring the best out of some varieties such as Columbus it’s fault was it grew tall straw and could shatter on occasion but would yield good and kick ass for grade when weather turned bad. I have had it in the two top grades with snow rain on it when the new stuff went feed.