Prairie production and acres chart

[grgsrvc]

Easy there grassy. You talking Eskimo now...

[Hopperbin]

Farming 101 can you bring up the american production and how they are dealing with production? Crop is better after a legume no doubt. 200 lbs means someone smoking something.

[farming101]

Hopperbin, here's a few numbers.
Principal field crops included.
Left out peanuts, beets, hay and stuff like that.
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[cottonpicken]

Thanks for those charts. We need more stuff like this on here when debating things.
So one third of production increase has come from summerfallow acres maybe most of the rest from fert/spray and we want to give up seed rights to gain what?

[TOM4CWB]

CP,

Not giving away seed rights... gaining quality control and purity.

PLUS new novel seeds can be developed and released here... without fear of contamination and poor genetic quality.

Grain Growers can use pre 2015 seed supplies... as they did before... as those seeds registered before UPOV91 came into force in Feb 2015... use the old rules NOT UPOV91.

We never get something for nothing.

[furrowtickler]

So any seed varieties registered from 2015 foreward we can reuse on our own farm?

[SASKFARMER3]

Ah tom quit trying to explain how the new seed act is going to benefit farmers.
Its all about taping the last area in ag in Canada that the industry felt wasn't paying enough.
You can only crush a farmer so long till their done.
WERE APROACHING THAT POINT REAL FAST>

The extra yield in Canada over the last 40 years came about because now we fert the shit out of a crop and a little seed treatment and fungicide.
Yield only increased because of these factors.
Oh and it rained in the Palliser triangle so production is back up.

[cottonpicken]

Take your pound of flesh for one year then it's ours or when you meet your maker and asks you about those young farmers who took their own lives because of your greed,spend your eternity in hell.

[bucket]

Quality control and purity.

Really?

Has anyone noticed that our end users paid more for lower quality durum last year than some of the best grown the year before?

Purity. Really. Klause said his terminal would buy pasteur wheat as a hrsw.

Someone is blowing smoke.

[farmaholic]

Quality seed like L150
ACCOUNTABILITY like the triffid issue?

Wasn't there changes made to the registration process of new varieties a few years back? Does anyone know if there were any more than KVD? Have the rules been relaxed too much? wmoebis?