Australian End Point Royalty System Explained

[malleefarmer]

As harvest approaches, a new Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) fact sheet has been released to answer growers’ questions about End Point Royalties (EPRs).

EPRs are an essential income source for Australia’s cereal, pulse and oilseed breeding programs. The collection of these royalties is evolving and now there are two main systems.


These two main collection systems are:



•Automatic deduction of EPRs by grain traders buying from a grower; or


•Royalty managers directly invoicing growers for EPRs.

The Plant Breeder’s Rights Act gives the variety owner the exclusive right to sell their varieties, which includes the right to collect royalties for commercial use.


Plant breeders rights (PBR) is a type of intellectual property right/set of rights. It is a protection of a variety that allows the breeder/owner of the variety to place restrictions on what the grower and others can do with it.




http://www.grdc.com.au/uploads/documents/End%20Point%20Royalties%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

[malleefarmer]

clik the link for more details,its something you guys are going to have to nut out when and if change happens to your marketing system

[gustgd]

@Mallee As I understand farmers still get to use farm saved seed. yet they still pay the EPR. In this system breeders get paid for putting out successful varieties. yet farmers don't have to pay the full costs of pedigree.

In your opinion are farmers "happy/satisfied" as much as it's possible to keep farmers happy?

[malleefarmer]

yep you got correct and i think everyone is happy.
Its probably the same over there on the praries we get about at a average 8 to 10 new varieties of wheat and barley oats maybe 4 to 6 canola seems to be about a dozen or more every year