Sask Wheat Commission and public breeding

[farming101]

Wheat breeding should be squarely focused on disease resistance.
Benefits of disease resistance include a healthier crop, less/no fungicides and increased yield.
It would be ridiculous to say we shouldn't breed wheat for disease resistance because that will just produce more wheat and make the marketing problem even worse. No sense to that.

[grower99]

The pulse model of farmer supported breeding works in Sask at the CDC etc

[farmaholic]

farming101, why would the same company that sells fungicides, shitty as some are, want to breed wheat that doesn't require their products?

Do you think they are even remotely interested in the an IPM approach or one where they can sell fungicides and insecticides. I would hope they're responsible enough to aim for the IPM approach.

[Nudge]

Sure a farmer sponsored breeding program is fine as well, and I would think it would fit inside the model of end use royalties. If they succeed that is great, if they don't well they wouldn't have many royalties to fund the next round. Room for everyone really. Let the market decide. Really no different than 'producing' and other piece of technology...some are good and some fail. My guess is that some farmers would grow varieties that supported the public program even if there were other slightly better varieties. The farmer funded model may have a 'moral' advantage!

[farming101]

Farmaholic,
The fungicide advertisements are in the paper already. There's your answer.

[grower99]

Do farmers support the Variety Release program in pulses? If they do then why not a similar program for cereals in Sask?

[tweety]

You have to be pretty short sighted to think that the only money for research would be from the commission checkoff.

If farmer owned and royalty varieties were grown on most of the land in western canada, that would generate how many $$$$?

Time to wake up perhaps o sleepy negative famers?

[tweety]

Right now how many of your dollars go into shareholders pockets and the purchase of brand new seed company F250 trucks and shiny black sunglasses?

[gustgd]

http://www.producer.com/2015/02/plant-breeders-rights-hike-wheat-profit/



http://westerngrains.com/news/request-proposals-exploring-options-for-producer-involvement-in-wheat-barley-variety-development/

Wheat and barley check-off based producer organizations in western Canada have formed a Working Group to explore options for producer involvement in wheat and barley variety development. The Working Group has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to engage a consultant to assist in the exploration of options. A link to the RFP is below:

[wmoebis]

How many plant breeders is the check off divided between and how much does each get?
Who decides who gets what amount?