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[bgmb]

Tom, how long till secan and cantera are bought out and we are dealing with dupont monsanto and bayer for cereal seed?

[bgmb]

Tom,

[bucket]

Just some examples of who pays when things go wrong with markets.

1. Starlink corn
2. Syngenta corn
3. Triffid flax

Just wondering who pays for these **** ups?

Government didn't nor did the companies or persons responsible.

Farmers paid with lower prices due to list markets. And in the case of flax we are still paying.

[TOM4CWB]

Bucket,

All the more reason... to make sure another triffid does NOT happen again up here.

If UPOV91 had been in place... perhaps we could have traced back... and nabbed those responsible for the massive disruption triffid caused our farms.

Corn is of no consequence up here... for now... but there was massive settlements... on rice, those corn genes... wheat:

"Business Farming

Monsanto Reaches $2.4M Settlement With U.S. Wheat Farmers
Elizabeth Barber @ElizabethKateri
Nov. 13, 2014 Wheat

In settling, the firm said it was seeking to avoid a protected legal battle

Monsanto agreed Wednesday to pay almost $2.4 million to settle a lawsuit filed by U.S. wheat farmers, after a genetically modified strain of the grain was found in an Oregon field and spooked importers of American wheat.

No genetically engineered wheat has been approved in the U.S., but in 2013 wheat matching a strain of an experimental type developed and tested by Monsanto a decade earlier was found growing in a field in Oregon, the Associated Press reports. The modified wheat was not approved by federal regulators, and the seed juggernaut had said it had destroyed the crop.

A government report judged the incident to be an isolated case, but it did not conclude how the errant wheat had come to be in the field. Nations wary of genetically modified crops were alarmed: Japan and South Korea briefly stopped importing American wheat, and American farmers cried foul over the damage done to their revenues and reputations.

The St. Louis–based company’s settlement includes giving $2.1 million to farmers in the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho who sold soft white wheat between May 30 and Nov. 30 of 2013, as well as paying $250,000 to multiple wheat growers’ associations."

Under UPOV91. Had a multinational been responsible for triffid...under UPOV91 we would have expected a similar result.

[TOM4CWB]

bgmb,

I will be very surprised if any multinational could convince the farmers of Canada... to sell our ace in the hole... that provides a direct link, at cost, to new and novel genetics... at any price. We do not have shares. Canterra is private and I have no idea how they would proceed... since I am not a shareholder.

[TOM4CWB]

The first seed org... SECAN.

[bgmb]

I hope you are right Tom. I hope things don't end up like the canola seed market, another oligopoly.

[SASKFARMER3]

Tom Monsanto paid 2.4 million.
Really that's such a small settlement what did each farmer get a check for 27.56 so they could buy a case of beer and have smoke.
Really it was a peanut payment.

[Guest]

time will decide who was right or wrong , just don't forget who you were fighting for

[TOM4CWB]

SF3,

You do realize This wheat was in ONE small field... not ever entering the US grain handling system just affecting soft white wheat.