Do they want royalties on weed seeds too?
They get them when there are weed seeds contaminating the sample and royalties are paid on weight.
Do they want royalties on weed seeds too?
Or buy a bull, then pay a royalty every time a calf is born!NO, they let you have them for free.
Always thought these royalties seem a bit like,,You buy a car and then the seller demands that he can use it anytime he wants.
They get them when there are weed seeds contaminating the sample and royalties are paid on weight.
Yes pay for each variety separately. BSPB did a DNA test 3 years ago and charged according to the new ratios of each variety. Got my own test done this year and unfortunately for BSPB the one variety that is now dominating the mix has been taken off the list. Only paid royalty on 45% of seed drilled this year.
Does that mean that a variety that is so old that it’s no longer on the list is out yielding newer, supposedly higher yielding, varieties in a real world situation?
Care to share the names of the varieties in your blend?
Does that mean that a variety that is so old that it’s no longer on the list is out yielding newer, supposedly higher yielding, varieties in a real world situation?
Care to share the names of the varieties in your blend?
What soil type is your farm Simon?Conqueror, it has always yielded way more than anything else in my trials, but that's on my farm, in my system. That's why it is taking over the blend.
What soil type is your farm Simon?
Yes pay for each variety separately. BSPB did a DNA test 3 years ago and charged according to the new ratios of each variety. Got my own test done this year and unfortunately for BSPB the one variety that is now dominating the mix has been taken off the list. Only paid royalty on 45% of seed drilled this year.
I dont tell them about the volunteers sneaking into the crop, would they send someone to calculate whether its 1% or 1.5%?You must be the only farmer in the country that’s told them your sowing a mixed variety.
Would it not be fairest, assuming the blend is of say 3 equal amounts of varieties to pay the area pro rata. Eg 30 ha of a blend pay 10 ha worth of royalties per variety. It seems very unfair to have to pay full royalties of 3 varieties you effectively be paying 90 ha worth.
By the way for the sake of the seed police I haven't got any blends and don't intend to grow any!!!!!
Not really, I pay by the hectare. So in this example I would pay 10 Ha to each variety.I assume he pays per tonne, so 9t of seed works out to be 3t of each variety almost as you describe.