Wheat Growers welcome new funding for wheat research

[gustgd]

Thanks BlueFargo!

The Wheat Growers support this funding
announcement because it adds to the pot, for
wheat research.

Not to address all the point's but yes WGRF
is supportive as well. Check website for
press release. It allows farmers dollars to
be leveraged against Fed/Prov University
money. Yes I hope private corporate dollars
are also leveraged. We need more dollars to
be invested.

The Federal checkoff for WGRF, CIGI and the
CMBTC ends, no more than 5 years after 2012.
After that it will be up to each provincial
Commission to determine where farmer checkoff
dollars will go.

As far as Seed companies getting some of the
benefit from the Wheat Alliance?? I've not
been part of the negotiations. I hope the WA
licenses out some of their work. No use it
sitting on a shelf collecting dust.
Same goes for WGRF. That is, unless you want
a farmer owned company comercializing
everything that is "discovered". Think of the
admin cost on that.
I for one think private money makes those
decisions better. Convince me or a majority
of directors otherwise.

As always I only speak for myself and not the
board of WGRF or the Wheat Growers. Some of
them might agree with you already.(Exept for
the WG's. Its not really our thing.

If any of you think crops research will
continue on as before. Think again. You may
have read about how AAFC will no longer
finish varieties and how 600 staff got their
walking papers...

[oneoff]

Well for every enabler/apologist/as kisser there should be someone to call propaganda and self serving interests for what they are.

[gustgd]

You'll have to remind us again
Oneoff. How did you want things to
happen again?

[oneoff]

If your memory weren't so short; you would not have to repeat yourself so often.

[MBgrower]

I agree, don't like paying twice, once as a check off, and again on seed royalties. let the private co's develop the varieties on their own, and i'll pay their royalties when I purchase their seed.

too many commissions, too much administration.

i'm opting out of all check offs from now on.

[sumdumguy]

Aint that the truth Jensend? Right on the money!

[oneoff]

OK Gus... start responding to the host of other comments.

I suspect you have the same disdain for every one of those other commentors.

You just hit bottom. Gus

Deadcat double bounce?

[gustgd]

Jensend/Somedumguy. Rather than handed off I
would. Call it licensed. See previous
comments on commercialization. These licenses
and royalty s go back into research, to
benefit the farm gate.


Mbgrower. I could see your point if varietal
research was the only thing commissions did.
Yet there is also the market access, LLP,
agronomy, extension.... Sask Pulse Growers
does a market report because most of those
crops are not commodity exchange traded. Its
another opinion.

Both Govt and Industry feel that for farmers
to be at the table they have to bring
dollars. Table stakes if you will. If some
don't feel farmers should be at the table.
Whose interests will be represented?

Oneoff its would be the easiest thing in the
world to not reply to you saying "he's not
worth it"
. I'm not going to convince you. Yet I still
post for others that read yet don't comment.

[jensend]

Maybe cost recovery should be a primary
factor when selling a license, otherwise
it's a subsidy.

[oneoff]

"its would be the easiest thing in the
world to not reply to you saying "he's not
worth it"

Well you arrogant SOB; its farmers like me who have paid your wage and seen my research dollars "given away" for decades.

How dare you claim people like me are in your words "not worth it".