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AgriCast Episode 14: December 4, 2024 | Plant breeding funding and compliance issues
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12/3/2024
Neil Comben, general manager of LongReach Plant Breeders, discusses the critical role of end point royalties (EPRs) in supporting Australian wheat breeding.
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Jess Hi, on AgriCast today, we're talking about
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some of the challenges facing plant breeding at the moment. And we'll be hearing from a
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valued AgriCast commercial partner, Longreach Plant Breeders. Neil Combin is the General
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Manager of Longreach and a member of the Australian Crop Breeders Board. What does Longreach Plant
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Breeders actually do? And what are some of your major varieties?
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Neil We develop new wheat varieties for Australian farmers. It's as simple as that.
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We've got some very popular varieties out there in the marketplace at the moment,
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particularly in the east where we've got Lancer, Raider, Hellfire, Flanker. I've got a list of
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quite a few in that part of the world. And we've got some really exciting material coming through
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our pipelines for the southern region, so South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia.
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Jess Now I understand one of the biggest challenges
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at the moment is around endpoint royalties. Can you explain what an EPR is?
01:01
Neil Sure. So endpoint royalty is a royalty
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that comes back to the plant breeder at the sale of the produced crop, basically. So as the grower
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sells his grain, part of that money comes back to the breeder. And the reason that that's important
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is because if you think about traditional seed sales, that's how plant breeding normally makes
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their money is through revenue from seed sales. Given that these crops are open pollinated,
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it means that growers can retain their own seed or sell over the fence to their neighbour,
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and in which case you don't make money out of seed sales. And that's why the endpoint
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royalty system was brought into place so that there is an excellent value capture mechanism
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to support open pollinated crop breeding in Australia.
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Jess So there is a mechanism in place,
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but what's the challenge with that? Are people just not using it?
01:49
Neil Well, the challenge is that, you know,
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we do have a very good auto deduct system set up so that as the grower sells his grain,
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some of the funds from that is retained and sent back to the plant breeder. So that works fine.
02:01
But whenever grain is sold outside that system, we don't know about it unless the growers have
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completed their harvest declaration information stating exactly how many tonnes they've grown.
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Jess Is there any incentive for growers to actually do that?
02:15
Neil Well, the incentive is that if we don't have
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that value capture mechanism working, we will lose open pollinated crop breeding in Australia.
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So, you know, 20 odd years ago, that used to be done by the government. That's all changed now
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since the PBR Act came into play. As a result, if this falls over, where does the funding then
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come from plant breeding? Jess
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What would you like to see to help improve compliance rather than relying on growers
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to fill out forms, which let's face it, not many farmers like to fill out forms?
02:46
Sure, look, changes to our PBR Act that meant that auto deduct had to happen at each sale.
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At the moment, it doesn't. It's a voluntary sign up to that for the grain traders.
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That would be a great start. But ultimately, what we need to do is get a simpler process,
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like in the short term, we need a simpler process for growers to give us
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their information on how many tonnes of each variety they've grown.
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Neil Combin, thank you so much for your insights.
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