Herbicide Tolerant Lentil Variety Available 2006?

[parsley]

That should read $959.00/year as money the Canadian producer earned on the soley the markets in the last five years.

Sorry about that.

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Jackflash;

You didn't say anything wrong...

We all hope for solutions that help our crops grow well... without spending huge sums to a chemical company... and RR Canola has done this for many.

Hope we can find better solutions in the future... GPS guided solutions within .25 of an inch... weed with mowers, lazers... electrolysis... our imaginations are our creativity...

Please keep on using yours Jackflash!

[charliep]

Jackflash

I suffer the same questions at different times.

1) My thoughts are to evaluate new products/technology based on risks/benefits. Some risk is okay - the direction is to establish how much and ways of evaluating to prevent going too far down the wrong road.

2) In a world where we can land a little machine on Mars and communicate with it to tell it where to go/have it send back pictures, why can't the world develop processes to keep product separated in a way that meets customers very specific needs?

3) Parsley - I hear your comments about margins. Hard to beat the trend to bigger. Maybe an alternative is to get better. In my opinion, better will be improved marketing/working towards customer desires.

[parsley]

I agree, charliep, BIGGER is the trend. Farmer investment in bigger can be decimated by a sharp rise in interest rates. Will appear when we least expect it, and we carry the risk. BETTER can make money for the farmer, is my observation, and it will improve Stats Canada's figure of $959.00/yrlyavg earned income from the markets. Would you go so far to say LESS and BETTER?

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley;

The future will be in co-operation... which is simply a reorginisation of smaller farms into a structure of co-operation which can volume purchase, market, and manage more efficiently resourses which create food.

This takes a humble spirit by everyone involved... if Joint Ventures are to benefit economically.

I understand the Sask. Pulse Growers are to spend $600,000.00/ year from their own levy, to give to plant breeders for royalties instead of selling seed at higher prices.

My understanding is that this will apply to both CDC Saskatoon varieties as well as Private varieties.

This is an attempt to move to an EU/Ausie type system of seed development, where seed development cost is collected at the point of sale of the commercial produce rather than certified seed sales themselves.

SHOULD all of our grain seeds be funded and levy/royalty be collected in this manner?

[dnach]

Re: Tom4, the pulse industry should be a model for others to follow in this respect. I have been in the canola seed industry for over 10 years, and what I see as a farmer and a seedsman disturbs me.
As for Clearfield lentils, no big advantage, most producers are already pursuit on lentils or as a pre-burn with r/up. Works far better and safer than sencor.