Payments on farm-saved seed (FSS) are an investment in your farming business and that of the next generation. Innovation in plant breeding is essential for profitable and sustainable UK agriculture and delivers major benefits in terms of the yield, quality, agronomics and disease resistance of our key arable crops.
Loss of key crop protection tools and continuing uncertainty over Brexit's impact on trade, investment and support payments mean access to genetic innovation is now more important than ever.
Through the FAIR PLAY campaign, plant breeders and the farming unions are working together to safeguard future innovation in plant breeding by optimising the collection of FSS payments from each individual farmer. The campaign has made significant progress to ensure that farmers understand their legal obligations on FSS use and that all farmers using FSS contribute fairly to the benefits of breeding and new varieties.
As a result, the contribution of FSS payments to plant breeders' income has more than doubled, and now accounts for a third of the total income available to support plant breeding programmes. However the amount that still remains undeclared is enough to sustain an entire UK-based cereal breeding programme for a year.
Try a short quiz on aspects of the FSS rules at https://www.fairplay.org.uk/knowledge
BSPB will make a donation to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) for every complete entry received.
Loss of key crop protection tools and continuing uncertainty over Brexit's impact on trade, investment and support payments mean access to genetic innovation is now more important than ever.
Through the FAIR PLAY campaign, plant breeders and the farming unions are working together to safeguard future innovation in plant breeding by optimising the collection of FSS payments from each individual farmer. The campaign has made significant progress to ensure that farmers understand their legal obligations on FSS use and that all farmers using FSS contribute fairly to the benefits of breeding and new varieties.
As a result, the contribution of FSS payments to plant breeders' income has more than doubled, and now accounts for a third of the total income available to support plant breeding programmes. However the amount that still remains undeclared is enough to sustain an entire UK-based cereal breeding programme for a year.
Try a short quiz on aspects of the FSS rules at https://www.fairplay.org.uk/knowledge
BSPB will make a donation to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) for every complete entry received.
