—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 24,1977
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Pennfine ryegrass is first with federal law
UNIVERSITY PARK -
Pennfine ryegrass,
developed at liie Penn
sylvania State University,
has become the first Penn
State variety produced
under the new federal Plant
Variety Protection Act.
The new law stipulates
that seed growers wishing to
Grange is neutral
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The National Grange, the
nation’s oldest and second
largest farm organization,
has taken part in many
protest movements since its
founding in 1867. However,
the Grange has not taken a
formal position on the recent
strike called by the
American Agriculture
group.
John W. Scott, Master of
the National Grange, said at
Grange headquarters in
Washington, D.C., “While
the Grange does not have an
official position on the strike,
I have encouraged our
membership to study the
issues and arrive at their
own decision regarding
participation in the strike.
We understand and are in
sympathy with the ob
jectives of the American
Agriculture movement,”
Scott said, “but in our 111
year history we have found
our objectives can best be
obtained by working within
the system to create an
economic climate that will
protect producers and allow
them to maximize their
capital investments, labor
and management ability to
increase profits ”
The national farm leader
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produce a new variety may
do so under a contract
wherein the growers must
meet regulations for quality
seed as set by the breeder
(Penn State).
The law thus provides for
proprietary ownership,
wherein an individual or
went on to say that the 1977
farm act is a sound basis on
which to build a stronger,
more stable American
agriculture. “Changes need
to be made,” Scott said, “in
the method of supplementing
farm income so that
government support helps
those who need it the most
such as tenants, and small
and medium-size family
farms and not large, in
dustrialized agriculture that
can weather economic and
natural storms.”
Scott pointed out that the
smaller farmers do not
receive all of the advantages
of farm programs, tax
credits and other benefits of
largeness and consequently
were the first to feel the
cost/price squeeze. He
recommends a change in the
deficiency payment
schedule and set-aside
payments, and an all-risk,
all-county, all-crop federal
insurance program and
better credit availability and
refinancing opportunities for
medium size and young
farmers
Scott, who is also a former
dairy farmer, concluded,
“The unrest in American
agriculture is real and to
think otherwise is penny-
organization owns and
controls a variety. In this
way, the contract assures
the breeder that seed will
have the superior qualities
originally built into the new
variety, according to !>*•
Joseph M. Duich, developer
ofK . ane ryegrass.
on strike
wise and pound foolish. I
publicly call on Jimmy
Carter, as President and as a
farmer, to call a meeting of
national farm leaders to
discuss the agriculture
problem. It’s time the Ad
ministration spoke up for the
producers of our nation’s
only renewable resource.”
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The Plant Variety
Protection Act should help to
keep the price stable by
leveling off the supply and
demand. Without such
protection, unlimited
numbers of seed producers
enter the market with a
resulting “feast and famine”
for seed stocks, Dr. Duich
pointed out.
He said the Plant Variety
Protection Act has no
provision to put old varieties
under the law. In fact, a new
variety can not be sold for
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more than a year before
applying for cer
tification. Handling all
contractual arrangements
for producing Pennfme
ryegrass is the Seed
Production and Introduction
Corporation (SPIC).
Already, four competing
national seed companies are
producing Pennfine under
contract with SPIC. Dr.
Duich said Pennfine
ryegrass is also produced by
two companies in Holland.
Any Pennsylvania seedsman
wanting to obtain Pennfine
can secure a contract with
SPIC.
SPIC also contracts for
production of Pennstar
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BLUE LINE!
Kentuckyiriuegrass, another
Penn State development.
With the new variety
protection act in operation,
old stocks of ryegrass will
become victims of over
supply, Dr. Duich said. He
claimed there can be as
much as a six million dollar
turnover in seed stocks
within 12 months. Sold only
as ryegrass, the seed takes a
25 to 50 per cent drop in
price.
Since it was first released
m 1971, slightly over 11
million pounds of Pennfine
ryegrass have been grown
for seed. Production this
year is expected to exceed
'our million pounds.
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