Seed royalties hit brick wall

Source: Brian Cross, Producer.com, October 31, 2019 

Will a federal government with no Liberal MPs from Saskatchewan or Alberta be inclined to take a different approach on the touchy issue of seed royalties?

The president of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture thinks so.

And Lynn Jacobson is hoping the results of a recent producer survey on seed royalties will convince Ottawa to look at seed royalty options that are more palatable to western Canadian farmers.

“One of the first things that became apparent through the survey … is that producers do not like either of the two funding models that have been proposed so far,” said Jacobson.

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