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The Variety Use Agreement (VUA) platform is a web-based tool used to support and increase plant breeding investment and innovation by facilitating royalty collection in a cost effective manner. It is built on the principles of value, transparency and choice for producers. The VUA applies to specific seed varieties as determined by plant breeders and their distributors.
When producers purchase a VUA variety and divert some of that grain at harvest for seed use and plant it the following spring, they will be invoiced a ‘Variety Use Fee’ for use of the variety. This fee (which is set at the time of certified seed purchase) will be invoiced to the producer every year that the farm saved seed of the VUA variety is grown.
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Click through the menu below to view varieties and their maximum prices. The maximum reflects the maximum VUA fees that will be charged to a producer who is using these varieties as farm-saved seed on their own farms.
Variety: Esma
Breeder: Ackermann Saatzucht GmbH & Co. KG, Irlbach, Germany
Distributor: SeCan
Maximum VUA rate: $2:00 per acre
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Variety: KWS Kellie
Breeder: KWS LOCHOW GMBH, Germany
Distributor: SeCan
Maximum VUA rate: $2:00 per acre
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Variety: RGT Planet
Distributor: SeCan
Maximum VUA rate: $3:00 per acre
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Variety: SU Ruzena (Winter Barley)
Breeder: Ackermann Saatzucht GmbH & Co. KG, Irlbach, Germany
Distributor: SeCan
Maximum VUA rate: $7.00 per acre (Eastern Canada)
Peas
Variety: DL Delicious
Breeder: DL Seeds
Distributor: FP Genetics
Maximum VUA rate: $2.00 per acre
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Variety: DL Goldeye
Breeder: DL Seeds
Distributor: Riddell Seed Company
Maximum VUA rate: $2.00 per acre
Fababean
Variety: DL Tesoro
Breeder: DL Seeds
Distributor: Riddell Seed Company
Maximum VUA rate: $2:00 per acre
Pinto
Distributor: Canterra Seeds
Variety: ND Palomino
Maximum VUA rate: $5:00 per acre
Variety: CS Daybreak (CWRS)
Breeder: Limagrain Cereals Research Canada
Distributor: Canterra Seeds
Maximum VUA rate: $2.00 per acre
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Variety: CS Accelerate (CPSR)
Breeder: Limagrain Cereals Research Canada
Distributor: Canterra Seeds
Maximum VUA rate: $2:00 per acre
Variety: AAC Reid
Maximum VUA rate: $5.00 per acre