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[BreadWinner]

Ive only been farming 20 years and I would like to know the rules in black and white. Can someone post them in farmer language so I can understand them. Will I get in trouble this year for using seed in my bins? Is there variety declarations at the point of sale now? Royalties when and how? How is a guy supposed to know these things before he is a criminal? Can farmers go to jail for this?

[Guest]

glad I am getting near the end of this lunacy . and have no kids that want to farm !

[bucket]

Caseih

You lucky bastard. Lol.

[agchat]

Your so right caseih, almost done here. Guys like tom want to rule the world. Funny though will still retire even though the CWB gouged me all those years, imagine if they would have not been around, would of been retired twenty years sooner. Oh shut up agchat, "**** YOU ARE STUPID."

[bgmb]

Tom, your farmer owned secan cooperative probably wont be a farmer owned coop for long now.

[foragefarmer]

Only farming 20 years Hmmm!!! Call Tom

[CptnObvious]

The check-offs are still in place. Make sure you use them to support public breeding so that seed sales don't become the corporate cash cow that export sales have become.

[sawfly]

bgmb
you are exactly right.
every 6 months someone will be bought out. (maybe that is the payday tom was looking forward to.)

staff will be bled away.
power will be concentrated.
money will be no object in this.
as farmers will ultimately pay for it all.
Thanks for nothing.
and not even a chance that off patent varieties would be made available to the public.

it is a sad sad day.
why bother voting in elections.
Bayer and Monsanto, and CN and CP are writing the laws anyway.

[wmoebis]

Capt. Will they guarantee that the check offs only go to public breeding programs?
Other wise we should get refund and then donate outside them to the fund of our choice.
Private funders should do the same. If you don't care leave it there.

[furrowtickler]

The line companies are already setting up cereal treating stations - I can see that the only way they will buy grain in the near future if the seed is sold by them with the most expensive treatment on the market, and you will not be able to reuse on tou own farm or even in your garden. Syngenta is the first one at the trough at Cargil. We tried 80 ac of Syngenta's new hrsw, paid a fortune for it , had to pick it up and can not use it for our own farm. Thankfully it sucked, 10 bus/ac less than goodeve and fell fukin flat with identical fertility. Made my decision very easy.
I also can see Tom's crew at Secan being irrelevant soon as well. The big boys pushed seed growers out of the canola seed business and will do the same with cereals - Tom you will be a contract grower only. That is what happened on the canola side and every seed grower knows it.