Seriously...what are farmers going to do about the seed royalty

[bigzee]

Plain and simple, we will just bend over like we do for fert, chemicals, machinery, parts, fuel, etc.
It’s got to the point it doesn’t hurt anymore. I wish there was something we could do, I don’t know what that is. We are peasants to this world. It’s our job to feed this world for nothing, and that’s exactly what we are doing. We aren’t even left with the crumbs of the pie anymore.

[AllisWD45]

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Are we just going to roll over and take it....again.

Isn't it time we say NO...

Look at the seed industry... are they suffering?

Is our infrastructure keeping up to move more?

Is anyone buying our grain to where the entire system is cleaned out?

Along with higher yields means more bins another 3 bucks a bushel? or 40 cents over 10 years?

WHY do we as farmers keep taking it....

We never got our freight overages back?

we never got our rail car maintenance charges back?

We won't get our CGC overages back?

WHY ....Why do we keep getting shit on ....or taken advantage of?

WHY?????[/QUOT

Sad to say absolutely nothing will be done

[Braveheart]

Buy a Gjesdal 5 in one. Brown bag the seed cos into Chapter 11.

[macdon02]

Plan B is a couple hundred cows. Go back to grandpappies biz model. **** this shit. Marginal land goes to grass.

[jazz]

Plan B is a couple hundred cows. Go back to grandpappies biz model. **** this shit. Marginal land goes to grass.

What if you have no marginal land. What do you do with heavy clay. Guess cover crops work and even forages but open grazing not really an option.

I am going to commit blasphemy here. We should be looking at idling land back into chemfallow with cover crop or we are going to end up like the oil patch.

[macdon02]

What if you have no marginal land. What do you do with heavy clay. Guess cover crops work and even forages but open grazing not really an option.

I am going to commit blasphemy here. We should be looking at idling land back into chemfallow with cover crop or we are going to end up like the oil patch.

I did that last couple years.... 8 bushel on canola difference to the good on chem fallow. At current prices im not sure it pencils. Yes risk is lower. Probably call it average rainfall on the field also had a shot of hail.

[bucket]

If these seed companies would at least bring something new to the table like drought tolerant wheat, fusarium resistance etc I could partially stomach royalties.....but just telling us every variety is out yielding the last variety by 110% when it is just the same old shit with a different name is getting sickening.

The best value on durum this year was for guys that had the 2016 FUZZ crop in the bin and sold it at 6.40 a bushel ....know guys that were selling durum on that program to take the stress out of harvest. ...they ended up with more than signing a 2cwad with discounts...

[katoe]

Speaking of durum where are all the pasta plants we were going to see in western canada?

[bucket]

Speaking of durum where are all the pasta plants we were going to see in western canada?

Good question for the WCWGA that were there for that Belle Plaine photo op with the man that has been subsidized better than Bombardier....

[bucket]

and what stops them from putting a royalty on bull semen?