Critics of the existing regulatory framework say cereals productivity has lagged, while others say the numbers don’t support this assertion.

Analysis: Seed Summit long on rhetoric, short on specifics

Seed firms may not like the rules, but they don’t seem to have much sense of what they’d like to see replace them

Three meetings, over three weeks, and a total of nine hours later, Brett Halstead says he still doesn’t know what regulatory changes the seed industry wants. “I still haven’t really heard what the problems are,” the Saskatchewan farmer and chair of the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission said during the final online Seed Summit meeting Feb.

Seed regulation discussion has a long history

This conflict has been raging for years with few answers

Questions about what seed companies want aren’t new. Multinational firms have pushed for less regulation for years. The issue came up at the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale’s (PRCWRT) meeting back in February 2013, in Saskatoon. “What is the one thing you think we should stop doing?” Stephen Fox, who at the