PARTNERSHIPS

The science of plant breeding and bringing new products to market requires partnerships. In the case of oats, there are seed bank workers, seed companies, farm organizations, oat growers, agronomists, grain terminal organizations, transportation groups, oat mills and oat processors, and our consumers.

We have been connecting with all of these groups in various ways. Insights, guidance, opinions, encouragements, cooperation, and financial support have all been part of the recipe that has allowed us to begin and become a meaningful part of the oat industry.

We are thankful to these groupings and organizations:

• The various oat breeders and plant breeders in Canada and around the world

• Plant Gene Resources of Canada

• Our Families

• Kubota

• Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada

• University of Saskatchewan

• SeCan

• Richardson Milling

• Oat researchers from around the world

• Agronomists

• The Prairie Oat Growers Association and all its members

• Seed Depot

• Farm Media

• General Mills

• The Seed Growers of western Canada

• Grain Millers

• Paterson Grain

• Our many seed company contacts

Certified Seed Sales Partners

The bulk of funding for the operation of Oat Advantage now comes from certified seed sales. Royalties are a percentage of that seed sale, and the funds are passed on through oat seed growers by the distributor (currently SeCan and Seed Depot) to Oat Advantage. We are grateful for the excellent work of Oat seed growers and the service they provide to the farming community. We see the value of the high quality product that they produce and sell and we heartily support purchasing your seed often through these fine sellers of our Oat Advantage oat varieties.

Farm Saved Seed Partners - Oat Advantage Oat Research Support

Budgets, economics, and convenience sometimes requires the use of your own Oat Advantage saved seed. This is acceptable to us; we are glad that our oat varieties make sense for your farm. We also appreciate that nearly all oat growers across western Canada allow a small portion of payment from their delivered oat grain at harvest to go toward the Prairie Oat Growers Association (POGA). Some of these funds are directed by POGA to go back into oat research and Oat Advantage is one of three oat breeding programs in western Canada that receives some of those funds.

We are also asking for your direct oat research support. If you used farm saved seed and you had a “Wow!” factor at harvest, we would ask you to consider making a contribution of 50 cents an acre, from that field, to our oat breeding cause.

Why? Well, we work on many oat projects and targets for the oat grower that simply don’t receive funding.

Again, Thank you to all growers who seed our varieties!! We are all working toward creating a better and more valuable oat industry, from beginning to end.

 Sincerely,

Jim & Laura-Lee Dyck

Please consider contributing 50 cents/acre

Please E-transfer your Support to vespersparrow17@gmail.com
All monies collected are used for oat breeding research by Oat Advantage/Vesper Sparrow.

Community Partners - for ORe6251M Growers

We are spreading the reach of this valuable, small market oat variety to our innovative growers. This variety is suited for use in an organic way, an intercropping way, and for late seeding when season situations dictate a quick maturing, high value oat.

As Oat Advantage we are asking for those selling ORe6251M to contribute 6% of their seed sale to us through cheque or E-Transfer.

We are pleased to note that oat mills in Saskatchewan are already purchasing ORe6251M.

Please “click” the Contract button to buy or sell.

Instructions for sending an e-transfer

• Please add Jim Dyck with this email vespersparrow17@gmail.com to your contacts.

• Calculate your contribution. 50 cents per acre for every acre of Oat Advantage Farm Saved Seed that you grew. Or for ORe6251M 6% of your seed sale.

• Log into your bank account

• Select Move Money, Send Money or E-transfer depending on your bank or credit union.

• Choose Jim Dyck as the person you want to send to. If you have not added him to your contacts, type in his name and vespersparrow17@gmail.com Please ensure you use this email.

• Add the $ amount and choose the account being sent from (usually chequing). The order for inputting this information may vary depending on your bank.

• Click Send. E-transfers sent to this e-mail will be automatically deposited.

• Receipts will be issued by Oat Advantage.

Or alternatively mail your cheque.
Make cheque payable to: Vesper Sparrow Prairie Research Inc.
826 Maguire Crescent
Saskatoon, SK
S7W 1A4