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Crops

Prairie farm slapped with plant breeders’ rights infringement penalties

Farmers need to know who they are buying seed from to avoid potentially significant costs

By Allan Dawson February 26, 2021
Infringing on Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) has cost a large southern Alberta farm a record $737,597. “The settlement relates to unauthorized advertisements and sales of PBR-protected barley and wheat varieties,” […] Read more

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Crops

PBR breach to cost Saskatchewan seed grower $150K

By Allan Dawson February 19, 2016
A Saskatchewan seed grower will pay $150,000 to SeCan — the largest penalty in the seed company’s history — for breaching SeCan’s plant breeders rights (PBR). Harvey Marcil of Pasqua […] Read more

(Limagrain.com)
Crops, Markets

Canterra, Limagrain plan cereal breeding j.v.

By Farmtario Staff July 3, 2015
Canada’s recent moves to tighten protections of plant breeders’ rights are getting the credit for encouraging a new private-sector joint venture in cereal seed development for the Prairie market. Canterra […] Read more

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Crops

Pearce: Cereal seed firm pressing certified seed issue

By Ralph Pearce July 1, 2015
It’s no secret that the cereal sector has had a tough time trying to convince growers to purchase certified seed, but companies such as C+M Seeds are actively making their […] Read more

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Crops, Markets

Canada ratifies UPOV ’91 seed treaty

By Farmtario Staff June 22, 2015
Canadian crop commodity groups are hailing the federal government’s move to ratify Canada’s participation in the international UPOV ’91 treaty as a signal the country is “open for national and […] Read more


Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, shown here last month in Saskatoon, on Friday announced royal assent for his Bill C-18, the Agricultural Growth Act. (Agr.gc.ca)
Crops, Markets

Ritz’s Agricultural Growth Act now law

By Allan Dawson February 27, 2015
Banff — There was applause here when plant breeders, seed companies and farmers at the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale heard the Agricultural Growth Act, with its […] Read more

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