Faller, Prosper recommended for interim registration

[farmaholic]

You beat me to it stonepicker. The carrots for these IP Programs are a joke. Especially wheats. Canola can be a bit of a different story if your close to a crusher and don't have too big of a yeild loss on some of their "specialty" varieties. Kinda of insulting. Offer to grow it for them, they supply the inputs and you charge them the going rate for rent and charge them custom rates for all operations....suddenly they're not so interested. LOL

[SASKFARMER3]

If I remember a Program Patterson ran or Richardson, You were forced to buy certified seed every year. They called it keeping its purity.
Math just didn't add up.

[bgmb]

The guys I know who grow Faller get 100bu/ac and haul it to the states for 7 bucks. They dont know what to do with their money.

[SASKFARMER3]

Ok but under the new rules wont some young gun from the seed company show up at these guys farms and say. Here is a nice piece of paper that says you owe me a royalty of 30 to 70 a acre. Payable today. Thanks.
We take visa.
Just saying.

[Klause]

Faller is a public variety... I don't think they can charge royalties on it...


Wasn't it developed at the U of North Dakota?

[bgmb]

i would doubt they can go retroactive but maybe. just go buy 100 bu of certified, then you can clean forever. might work might not who knows.

[bgmb]

Not UND Klause, NDSU. and yes NDSU does collect royalties on the certified that gets sold but i think the vast majority is not certified some came into MB before there was even an agreement between seed depot and ndsu.

[SASKFARMER3]

ok here is a question for Gust.
If you deliver oh lets say a HRS to local elevator but forget to vacuum out the hoppers on combines when switching from Faller to Goodeve. does the Grain company take you to court for damages.

[farmaholic]

"Forget to vacuum out the hoppers", commercial grain growers....? Are you setting up a scenario of extremes trying to prove the stupidity of whay may be coming down the pipes?

Lets say you haul a mixed load in. Bit in a hopper cone of one variety and the rest something else. Do we split hairs and estimate or say eff it and it's all the same.

[bucket]

What do you mean graincos, what about the rest of the farmers it affects.

Look what happened in flax. Graincos breeders etc were not on the hook for additional costs or ruined markets. The costs all came to farmers.

These kind of trials should be well trailed. If a farm goes to faller then it's his whole farm and where the grain goes as well. Some will Buy 100 bushels and then the whole neighborhood is growing it and then it starts polluting canadian hrsw - then what?

Bse is another good example. The cows came from the same farm. Obviously the CFIA didn't do their job thoroughly a few years ago. No mention of this. Just closed markets and Ritz says it's all good.

But hey let's all jump in. Might as well. The genie rarely gets put back in the bottle.

The talks should now be focused around a north American grading system. That's where we are heading. And end Point royalties.

Think this through. There is no other outcome once it's co-mingled whether on farm or on the system.