fiddle while Rome burns

[TOM4CWB]

I can't afford $200 just to cast a vote.

Makar... how much will it cost your farm... when the NSO extinguishes your 'farm saved seed' privilege?

[makar]

Makar... how much will it cost your farm... when the NSO extinguishes your 'farm saved seed' privilege?

There was a vote of sorts already the govt knows our wishes, i would gladly donate if it was to a known end, and no i cant spare it after three snowed under wrecks and no one cares about my vote at the end of my farming career.

[Guest]

heres a thought , all farmers grow IP seed , pay SFA, and call it protest, maybe even get natives involved

[TOM4CWB]

heres a thought , all farmers grow IP seed , pay SFA, and call it protest, maybe even get natives involved

Caseih,

our own supply chains with limited genetic upgrades is possible...

As we see the $100's of millions of our own funding... plus taxpayer enhancements...

If the NSO SeedSynergy Utopia persists and we approve... our own $$ funding will be used against us to enhance life science co's bottom lines... while seeing seed co's margins increase significantly.

The drip drip drip of erosion of our investments... straight out of our Capital Assets... is the pool of Cash governments, professional administrators, seed industry folks... and multi nationals... know control of our seeds will grant them access to our intergenerational Farmer Capital Assets.

The above;
governments, professional administrators, seed industry folks... and multi nationals...
Are testing our resolve with convincing bluffs... half truths... which I grant you is your right to concede your capital assets to yeild up to them.

Please do not turn and blame seed growers for the confiscation of farmer's capital... on top of all the rest of the intergenerational charges being passed down to future generations of farmers who will/are losing control of their seeds they need to be competitive and survive in future decades.

[sawfly1]

Tom sounds like you need to spend a little more and
Pay your NFU membership fees.
Now that you have finally converted and saw the light.
After pushing this agenda the last 25 years.

I told you, years ago just like canola , all the other breeders will be eliminated.
( and it does not matter, what that costs, because we shall pay for it , not them)

After you the wheat growers ,Harper and Ritz layed
The groundwork for this .
To come on here and blame the
Liberals ,come on.
(Not that I think they will save us anyway)

What bizarro world do you exist
In?
Harper and Ritz are simply bought off politicians.
That is what they do.
We expect that.
But you are supposed to be one of us . Not selling us out.

It is a little late to repent
At this point.
After all you have done for
The mega seed corporation's.
And then they spit you out.
Kinda fitting and
Pretty funny .

[blackpowder]

The seed game is getting out of hand.
Thank you for keeping us updated.

By the way Tom. How did you manage to build a new shop so close to the road allowance in the first place? Your house likely grandfathered. Appears your well within the 50m setback. Front shop doors within a semi length of the shoulder. Does that count as more than one approach? Who laid the gravel on the Queen's shoulder? Someone screwed up there.
Unless you bought a right of way from the Queen, your at risk of any future development requirements within that road allowance. What did your permit say before you built it? You better hope they don't need to cut a ditch lol.
I don't care but you can huck a frozen turkey out the shop door and it would land in the middle of the road.
With such a big yard,it appears diligence was lacking.

[TOM4CWB]

Tom sounds like you need to spend a little more and
Pay your NFU membership fees.
Now that you have finally converted and saw the light.
After pushing this agenda the last 25 years.

I told you, years ago just like canola , all the other breeders will be eliminated.
( and it does not matter, what that costs, because we shall pay for it , not them)

After you the wheat growers ,Harper and Ritz layed
The groundwork for this .
To come on here and blame the
Liberals ,come on.
(Not that I think they will save us anyway)

What bizarro world do you exist
In?
Harper and Ritz are simply bought off politicians.
That is what they do.
We expect that.
But you are supposed to be one of us . Not selling us out.

It is a little late to repent
At this point.
After all you have done for
The mega seed corporation's.
And then they spit you out.
Kinda fitting and
Pretty funny .

Sawfly,

I grant you the pessimist outcome is ours to grant the power elite if you choose.

I am not laughing even if you enjoy your fellow farmer's Capital Assets being confiscated through the loss of farmer control of our seeds in Canada. Become a CSGA farmer member... and

Vote NO to the NSO

Your choice... your have the right to say Yes to the Seed Synergy Utopia monopoly... and grant license to the 'value creation' trial ballon...but do not blame me... if doing nothing gets you nothing more than a chuckle and I told you so.

[TOM4CWB]

The seed game is getting out of hand.
Thank you for keeping us updated.

By the way Tom. How did you manage to build a new shop so close to the road allowance in the first place? Your house likely grandfathered. Appears your well within the 50m setback. Front shop doors within a semi length of the shoulder. Does that count as more than one approach? Who laid the gravel on the Queen's shoulder? Someone screwed up there.
Unless you bought a right of way from the Queen, your at risk of any future development requirements within that road allowance. What did your permit say before you built it? You better hope they don't need to cut a ditch lol.
I don't care but you can huck a frozen turkey out the shop door and it would land in the middle of the road.
With such a big yard,it appears diligence was lacking.

I applied for and was granted a County development permit before the re-build within as close to the previous shop foundation footprint as possible for our proper replacement farm shop foundation rebuild after the 'partial loss' fire damaged our pre-existing farm shop. Our yard level is at grade for 300+ feet... and the Queens gravel is on the County road... and my gravel on the approach with proper ditch slopes finishing drop offs to ditch levels for correct water drainage...

[sawfly1]

I am not enjoying it. At all
I told you how it would play out.
You just would not listen

I googled the CSGA , and the directors are all your boys.
Alberta fed of ag. FP GENETICS, AND Wheat growers association. Laurie Wakefield , pretty sure all Good conservatives.

It sounds like the sell out is theirs and your own
Doing.
They are going for the contracts , so farmers will never
Own their seed. ( kiss it goodbye)
Plus the voteing structure , is changing to enable a corporate takeover. ( so yes , your done )
I never saw any new federal government initiative's
To make this happen.
Yet you are trying to pin this on the liberal's.

It is exactly what you have worked for all these years.

I feel for you that you were not invited to the victory
Party.
Remember, it is a corporate event and no farmers/ victims , Will be invited.

[TOM4CWB]

I am not enjoying it. At all
I told you how it would play out.
You just would not listen

I googled the CSGA , and the directors are all your boys.
Alberta fed of ag. FP GENETICS, AND Wheat growers association. Laurie Wakefield , pretty sure all Good conservatives.

It sounds like the sell out is theirs and your own
Doing.
They are going for the contracts , so farmers will never
Own their seed. ( kiss it goodbye)
Plus the voteing structure , is changing to enable a corporate takeover. ( so yes , your done )
I never saw any new federal government initiative's
To make this happen.
Yet you are trying to pin this on the liberal's.

It is exactly what you have worked for all these years.

I feel for you that you were not invited to the victory
Party.
Remember, it is a corporate event and no farmers/ victims , Will be invited.

If you choose this to be your desired end to farmer's growers seed control.. and pass your rights under the Canada Seeds Act to the Corporate Industry SeedSynergy utopia... and do not lift a finger to call the bluff of the Seed Trade,,, then that is your choice not mine. I have given full disclosure apparently you really do not care... and are happy to buy the seed industry bluff;

And as you willingly cede your democratic and financial assets as a farmer to the NSO SeedSynergy Utopia... the responsibility is squarely yours alone. Informed consent.

Cheers