We are Losing Options in Seed

Lauren Comin of Seeds Canada spoke at the Alberta BC Seed Growers AGM Feb 5 2025.
I have some images below from her presentation and I have said similar things to what she says. Here is my takeaway. 

• We have not allowed competition in the breeding space (gov, commissions and others funding a public system have kept others out)
• We have no way to encourage breeders to come here now.
  • VUA's are too cumbersome, require enforcement and have slippage.

​What do we do? (Gregs opinion)

• We flip entirely to end point royalty on all crops. (unsure on Canola as it is already functioning as an industry)
  • ​​If we don't do this we will miss the chance to have a competitive breeding system where all farmers pay equality and new breeding entrants are drawn to Canada to breed for us and compete.
    • ​If we don't, the public system dies, and we have no options on seed breeding programs.
• ​​Will some farmers be not happy with this stance? Yes.
  • But if we do nothing, we will not have the solutions needed in the future and or will not have any control or opportunity for competition in the breeding space..
• ​Currently we don't know what we are missing in terms of yield gains, disease solutions and market opportunity because of the breeding system we have now.

If you don't agree with me, what is the solution?
​Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about this topic asking questions: https://www.stampseeds.com/blog/seed-value-chain