FW: Hybrid Seed
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- Subject: FW: Hybrid Seed
- From: B* M*
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:27:44 -0400
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From: Bob Marcellus[SMTP:marcellus@cybertap.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 7:14 AM
To: 'Pumpkin Mailing List'
Subject: Hybrid Seed
I have a question on Seed Hybrids. As I understand it seed Hybrids are
created by crossing two (or three or four) types of seed in a certain
manner such that the seed to be grown by the farmer is a registered hybrid.
Now because the seed company that grows the hybrid has registered the seed
as a hybrid they have the exclusive right to be the only company that sells
that specific hybrid. Is this correct.
As I further understand it hybrid seed does well the first year out and if
I was to grow from the seed I grow this year (which has been self
pollinated) next year my crop will not be as good in Year2 as Year 1. Is
this correct.
The crop that I grow in Year 1 is generally sold to a central marketing
agency and from there eventually sold to a consumer. My question is "is
there any value in obtaining exclusive rights to a Hybrid grain for use in
my brewery". Would this exclusive right be enforceable when the Seed
company will sell farmers say 100 times more seed than what I will need in
the brewery.
Background is that I have been approached by a Seed Company that is making
me this offer. Is this just air?
Bob in Spencerville.
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