>I am guessing that what Klaus was lamenting is the system in effect in
>Europe. Klaus, fell free to correct me if I guessed wrong!
yes, you are perfectly right. that's what i think i wrote: "wrong
for europe"
if winston churchill or even william the conquerer would have given
a bag of grain as a reward to one of me ancestors and i would
multiply and grow it today (provided it still would be viable),
wooshh, the breeders fund would come along and cash me year
after year for growing grain from the 10th century.
a small exception for that: farmers, who do not grow more than 3
ha -~12 acres-, are excluded from that like from a lot of other
things. and another, larger one: if you can proof, that you
already have bought more than between 60 and 100% of your annual
seed requirements, you get a reduction from the fee on a year-to-
year basis. but being a farmer is a PROFESSION and not a hobby, and
you can't make a living from 3 ha. i can't get rid of the
impression, that this exception was not implemented for the sake of
"mini farmers". the relation (time-expense for control:money gain)
just would be too high for the fund.
that raises the question: who maintains (meaning: pays) for the
public seed collections and seed banks and who is the only one, who
can draw any possible advantage out of them ?????? (except for a
new communist revolution with radical expropriation certainly not
the taxpayer)
klaus
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