In 2017, the federal government initiated national consultations for two new crop royalty systems that could be used to support additional crop breeding. In this study, we examine wheat growers’ attitudes towards breeding research and assess their inclination to contribute more to wheat variety development through checkoffs or enhanced royalties. We report a random effect probit estimation for a survey of 877 western Canadian wheat producers that took place from November 2018 to January 2019. We found at least 26% of survey respondents were willing to pay more to support additional wheat breeding. However, this support is contingent on the model for revenue collection and where additional revenue is invested. Producers generally favored increased checkoffs over enhanced royalty collection. Among the royalty options presented, the farm saved seed royalties mechanism had less support than the simpler to implement end‐point royalties mechanism. We also found support is much higher if new royalty mechanisms are used to support university or government programs versus private breeding programs. This result suggests developing widespread producer support for enhanced royalty collection may require broader commitments for funding, ownership, and control of crop breeding programs.

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加拿大西部生产商对小麦育种资金的态度

2017年，联邦政府针对两种新的农作物特许权使用费制度启动了国家磋商，该制度可用于支持其他农作物育种。在本研究中，我们研究了小麦种植者对育种研究的态度，并评估了他们的意愿，以便通过核销或提高特许权使用费为小麦品种的发展做出更多贡献。我们报告了2018年11月至2019年1月对877个加拿大西部小麦生产国进行的一项调查的随机影响概率估计。我们发现至少有26％的调查受访者愿意为支持更多的小麦育种付出更多。但是，此支持取决于收入收集的模型以及在其中投资额外收入的模型。生产者一般都赞成增加结帐，而不是增加特许权使用费。在提出的使用费选项中，农场节省的种子特许权使用费机制比实施端点特许权使用费机制更简单。我们还发现，如果使用新的特许权使用费机制来支持大学或政府计划而不是私人育种计划，那么支持会更高。这一结果表明，为提高特许权使用费而获得广泛的生产者支持可能需要对作物育种计划的资金，所有权和控制做出更广泛的承诺。