Daniel king
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I am guessing their must be a good reason why you can't home save Hybrid rapeseed , could someone please tell me , rape seed at £250 ton and a 3 Ha pack at £230 ish !!!!! Something stinks I think .
Why can't you home save Hybrid rapeseed !!!
- Thread starter Daniel king
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THE LAW.
Daniel king
Member
Arrrr I did wonder if it's illegal !! That's the reason then .
It's also to do with the inherited traits like this.
- Location
- S E Glos
Hybridity (right word?) only lasts for one generation so the next generation is still oilseed rape which will grow as per normal but not the same variety, in fact not a known variety hence can't be 'grown'
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Flat10 has it correct, I am not a geneticist so it isn't as simple as it reverting back to the parents but it certainly isn't going to reproduce another 'hybrid equivalent' crop and yes it is illegal.
is it just me that finds it odd we have laws to protect seed breeders margins yet allow a few supermarkets to bankrupt the entire dairy industry ?
I can't see that home saving hybrid see could be in any way dangerous ? it would no longer be a hybrid but do we really need that to be LAW ?
I can't see that home saving hybrid see could be in any way dangerous ? it would no longer be a hybrid but do we really need that to be LAW ?
Yes, because farmers know nothing about their own land or best practise, and happily throw their fert in ditches; chemicals down drains; impale all wildilfe on rusty spikes; purposefully wait until the wettest day to lift their root crops; would happily plant seeds which could revert to a random parent variety etc.
Or perhaps we desperately, desperately, need to find temporary jobs in the public sector (paid for by modulating these farmer's free money for doing nothing) for a whole generation of otherwise jobless 20-somethings with arts degrees and little grasp of long division.
will reply properly later, found a few old cans of DDT I need to loose down a drain before I go out with my pitchfork to murder a few lapwings
Maybe best to close down my home GM lab - learnt all about how to mutate wheat genes on 'tinternet last year and have been growing 20t/ha this time with no inputs - trouble it the grains look a bit like fish ??
It's a good job we have laws to protect us from ourselves isn't it
Grain Buyer
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- Location
- Omnipresent
I don't have anything to do with the "seed" side of things. But surely if you don't like the price, don't buy it! You knew you couldn't farm save it when you planted it last year so what's your problem?
- Location
- Berkshire
Why is the legalities of this an issue ??
Why would any one want to hss a hybrid and have no guarantee of the outcome of the crop, isn't the law just protecting people like the op from having a variable or poor outcome with the next years crop.
Growing conventionals and home saving them (paying the royalties of course) would be the logical outcome of any dissatisfaction with the cost of hybrid seed and potentially dodgy hss hy
Why would any one want to hss a hybrid and have no guarantee of the outcome of the crop, isn't the law just protecting people like the op from having a variable or poor outcome with the next years crop.
Growing conventionals and home saving them (paying the royalties of course) would be the logical outcome of any dissatisfaction with the cost of hybrid seed and potentially dodgy hss hy
warksfarmer
Member
You can.
my point is do we really need it to be LAW though ?
- Location
- Berkshire
Most farmers dont
For some farmers, most definitely yes !!
- Location
- Cirencester
Well it's growing like buggery in my OSR stubbles after a shallow cultivation, whatever it's parents were!!!
david
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- Location
- County Down
Or buy an open pollinated variety ?