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Follow the Grain

Follow the Grain. A Private Breeder’s Perspective January 21, 2010. Outline. Homework or challenge Background Breeding Companies WestBred PVP History and Practice Maybe wheat classes and must know math. Monsanto Announcement. July 2009 Monsanto acquired WestBred, LLC from Barkley Ag

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Follow the Grain

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  1. Follow the Grain A Private Breeder’s Perspective January 21, 2010

  2. Outline • Homework or challenge • Background • Breeding Companies • WestBred • PVP History and Practice • Maybe wheat classes and must know math

  3. Monsanto Announcement • July 2009 Monsanto acquired WestBred, LLC from Barkley Ag • Big news for wheat research • Concomitant activities of other companies

  4. My New Role Wheat Industry Advisor Barkley Ag Enterprise • Why me and Why now?

  5. Trends

  6. Trends

  7. Trends

  8. World Population Growth Increases in population will create new demand for food and agriculture markets Source: International Database

  9. Global Demand for Crops Projected to Grow Source: IHS Global Insights, Agriculture Division

  10. Wheat: One of the Most Important Crops Fast Wheat Facts: • Wheat is planted on more than 555 million acres worldwide. • In seven of the last 10 years, the world has consumed more wheat than it produced. • More foods are made with wheat than any other cereal grain. Source: Wheat Foods Council

  11. Private Cereal Breeding Co’s • AgriPro Syngenta • BASF • Bayer CropScience • Dow AgriScience • Limagrain (France) • Pioneer DuPont • WestBred Monsanto • World Wide Wheat

  12. Today going into Phase I Breeding history of 30 years Research breeding continuing as it has in the past We are not forgetting on how we got to today Implementation of currently available Breeding Tools Molecular Markers & Doubled Haploids Increased Analytical testing

  13. Today . . . Phase I (cont.) Collaboration with Public and Private sectors Continuance of Industry Acceptance, farmers, domestic millers, overseas buyers Evaluation of platform of trait development in wheat germplasm

  14. Phase I & Phase II Continued commercialization and release of Elite Germplasm Establishing a Genetic Footprint Seeking acceptance of Biotech and implementation of Traits

  15. DISCOVERY PHASE I PHASE II PHASE III PHASE IV BREEDING GENOMICS MARKERS ELITE GERMPLASM IT PLATFORM ANALYTICS COMMERCIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY Monsanto Will Use Breeding and Biotech

  16. Monsanto’s Commitment Producing more Conserving more Improving lives

  17. Tug of War

  18. GMO Divide

  19. Homework and Challenge

  20. Intellectual Property Protection • Plant Variety Protection Certificates [PVP’s] • Plant Patents • Utility Patents

  21. PVPA History • Plant Patent Act 1930 • UPOV in Europe 1961 • Plant Varieties & Seeds Act (UK) 1964 • Plant Variety Protection Act 1970

  22. PVPA History • Plant Variety Protection Act 1970 • Requirements: -distinct • uniform • stable • Exemptions: - license in public interest • research exemption • farmer’s saved seed

  23. PVP PROBLEMS • Saved seed exemption • Delta and Pine Land v. Peoples Gin 1983 • Pioneer 2157 1989 • Asgrow v. Winterboer 1991

  24. PVPA History • PVPA 1970 1972 • 17 years (US joined UPOV 1981) • PVPA Amended 1982 • 18 years • PVPA Amended 1994 • 20 years

  25. PVPA History • PVPA Amended 1994 • 20 years • New, distinct, stable, predictable • No ‘Variety Not Stated’ (VNS) • Essential derivation • No farmer’s seed exemption

  26. PVPA History • “Title V” Option • Variety can only be sold as seed as a class of certified seed • Part of the Federal Seed Act • Elected with PVP application or subsequent • Can be added, never removed

  27. PVPA Violations • Without certificate holders permission: • sell, offer for sale, exchange as seed • import into or export from the US • use to produce a hybrid • fail to give notice as to its PVP status • condition the variety for propagation • use for essential derivation

  28. PVPA Excuses • Didn’t know it was protected • Didn’t use the name • Didn’t sell it as seed, just grain • Didn’t sell it, just traded for it • Farmers have a “God-given right” to save and sell seed • Members of “x” can pool seed

  29. PVP vs. Utility Patent • PVP gives license to legal user • PVP gives limited control over use • PVP has exemptions • research • national emergency or necessity

  30. Utility Patent • PVP gives license to legal user • Utility Patent gives no license • Utility Patent has few exemptions

  31. Grower Education

  32. Additional Information • A few more bits of information for those traveling to Chile

  33. US Wheat Classes • Hard red winter • Hard red spring • Soft red winter • Durum • Hard white • Soft white • Winter, spring, club

  34. Wheat Barley Yield Price Yield Price

  35. Must Know Math ! • Yield: kg/ha or MT (m.t. or M.T.)/ha • kg = 2.2046 pounds • MT = 2204.6 pounds • ha = 2.471 acres • ~kg/ha approx. equal to lb/acre

  36. Must Know Math ! • World Test Weight • kg / hl • = lb/bu X 1.287 • 60 lb/bu = 77 kg/hl • 48 lb/bu = 62 kg/hl

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