Grain / seed cleaning

[Walton2]

We pay Royalties on seed we use like that in UK, I expect you you have a similar system in Australia? With a task force to police the system?

 

[Farmer Roy]

We pay Royalties on seed we use like that in UK, I expect you you have a similar system in Australia? With a task force to police the system?

we pay End Point Royalties on varieties that have Plant Breeders Rights.

which means, depending who we sell the grain to, that $2 or $3 per tonne is automatically deducted, or at the end of the season we have to declare how much we have sold.

the system is open to a bit of fuzzy figures & creative accounting, but seeing as the vast bulk of our grain crop either goes for export or domestically through large mills, feed processors or grain merchants, it is relatively easy to police. Most grain buyers are registered with the EPR scheme to make deductions & growers all have their own NGR ( national Grower Register ) number which is needed to simplify payments ( our banking & trading details are all recorded on NGR, so when we sell grain we just need to quote our NGR number for electronic payments ), so it all happens pretty seamlessly.
Because we are an export driven nation, quality is taken very seriously, there are also the odd spot check done apparently to confirm that what is being delivered is true to type & the correct varietal characteristics . . .

no EPRs on hybrid varieties, as they wouldn’t be kept for seed & the plant breed res make enough money selling the seed in the first place . . .

we pay EPR when we sell the grain.
we don’t pay it on grain in store, or grain that we keep for seed.
Which seems very fair - the more grain we grow, the more EPR we pay.

so ultimately - we don’t pay royalties on the 10 tonne of seed we keep, we pay it on the 1000 tonne we sell . . .

a number of old varieties have no PBRs or royalties, are effectively public or open access to all

 

[diesel1]

I auger corn into the straw elevator on the old MF 31, then bag it up out of the spout, easy.

 

[KennyO]

We use a denis d200, crank the wind up as high as she will go and it gives a pretty bold sample. Means you have to drill more kg but if the seed is tested clean we don't treat. Got a treater as well that we can use. Just treat enough as we go. Need to rig up some tatie boxes with solid sides and bottoms to we can dress the seed into them instead of bags, then just need to tipple into seed hopper.

We have some sheets of 9mm sterling cut to size to drop into boxes. Use them for storing odds and ends of grain.