Back to the seed tax

[grassfarmer]

I saw the ad too. One of the questions they answered was "Is this concept being driven by big multinationals" to which of course the answer provided was "NO".

So why did Dow AgroSciences have a seat at the roundtable?

[MBgrower]

sickening the amount of advertising dollars spent on ag inputs in the mass media where maybe 1-2% of the audience is an actual farmer. ****3n morons. Has anyone bought an input because of an advertisement? I believe most buy based on local results from other farmers, seed grower recommendations, local agronomists, not some ad on winterpeg radio and tv, or ads painted in the ice at nationally televised curling matches.

[jimmy]

If only we had a law like other nations... A new variety needs to be 7 or 10% better in yield, or protein, or have a novel trait, or otherwise be unique in order to be registered.

Then, once registered, the only way a variety can be removed from market is if it is proven to cause harm to a market or the population, and only possible by an order from government.



If only....


Oh wait... once upon a time....

Klause your making to much sense, no way they can extort money from us that way.

[bucket]

It's all a scam to steal from Farmers !

YUP.....100%.....the ****ing CGC has 130 million of farmers money and can't issue regular reports for grain delivered to ports....and some guys think we should build a trust fund for the seed companies without a say!!!!?????

[SASKFARMER3]

It’s a seed tax

[furrowtickler]

YUP.....100%.....the ****ing CGC has 130 million of farmers money and can't issue regular reports for grain delivered to ports....and some guys think we should build a trust fund for the seed companies without a say!!!!?????

The whole Ag industry believes they can take more and more and more .
It’s time to say enough ... we need to raise our families first , then they can fit in . Wheat breeders demand more money ... well ... what about us first !!
It’s our money , time and risk that makes this whole Ag thing turn ... not theirs ... it’s time the industry gets a slap of reality or who’s money they live Off . It’s them living off us , not the other way around and that fact has been forgotten and ignored for a long time .

[wd9]

If only we had a law like other nations... A new variety needs to be 7 or 10% better in yield, or protein, or have a novel trait, or otherwise be unique in order to be registered.

Then, once registered, the only way a variety can be removed from market is if it is proven to cause harm to a market or the population, and only possible by an order from government.



If only....


Oh wait... once upon a time....

Tell the PRCWRT, or at least your representatives on it to do that. No law required.

[SASKFARMER3]

Farmers need to wake up quit agreeing with all the industry and finally tell them enough is enough we have no more blood to give. We need a life for doing all the work and getting pennies in return.

There was a time we made big money farming and slow and steady they took it all away from us.

So those idiots that tell you it has to be done to keep us moving forward that is a huge crock of shit.

Were going backwards because industry feels we can still pay and pay and pay for them to play.

F#$K You!

[bucket]

What bothers me the most is the people sitting at the front of these information meetings say the government can't afford the R$D....and yet the government is still handing out stupid amount of money for other stuff like....

1. 26 million for a geothermal well that could have been done in more practical locations???
2. 110 million to fix up the churchill rail line????? based on a 300000 tonne program that is a buck a bushel for ten years.....and its not coming to farmers pockets....its going to FAIRFAX and others...
3. 600 million to the media....cough then puke...
4. 300 million to the ports ...while helpful there is still a bottleneck in the form of a mountain in the way...
5. one billion for the cluster thing


etc etc etc..

The public should be aware of the hazards of allowing private multi national companies own the seed resources of Canada...when it is a major exporter to the world....

Its not as much of a problem our grain was used domestically but do think its wise for Canada to have foreign investment dictate farming practices within its borders while farmers pay for it and have zero say????

think about losing the the country's ag sector to foreign interests....history won't be kind to that type of incompetence...

[ajl]

What bothers me the most is the people sitting at the front of these information meetings say the government can't afford the R$D....and yet the government is still handing out stupid amount of money for other stuff like....

1. 26 million for a geothermal well that could have been done in more practical locations???
2. 110 million to fix up the churchill rail line????? based on a 300000 tonne program that is a buck a bushel for ten years.....and its not coming to farmers pockets....its going to FAIRFAX and others...
3. 600 million to the media....cough then puke...
4. 300 million to the ports ...while helpful there is still a bottleneck in the form of a mountain in the way...
5. one billion for the cluster thing


etc etc etc..

The public should be aware of the hazards of allowing private multi national companies own the seed resources of Canada...when it is a major exporter to the world....

Its not as much of a problem our grain was used domestically but do think its wise for Canada to have foreign investment dictate farming practices within its borders while farmers pay for it and have zero say????

think about losing the the country's ag sector to foreign interests....history won't be kind to that type of incompetence...

Not to mention bombardier and the kinder morgan pipeline fiasco. I am in favor of pipelines but would like it if KM shareholders rather than taxpayers spend their money. What was so tough about arresting a few protesters? Now, if the pipeline gets built, it will lose money since Saudi and Russia will not give up the Chinese market without a fight so the expansion is really no longer needed.