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Boutique Tomatoes · May 6, 2013

I doubt that any of the independant breeders are planning on retiring from the revenue derived from seed sales, but it's an unfortunate reality that the work of growing out 7-8 generations of a cross to arrive at a unique new product is easily given away once the seed has been released and grown out by others.

Steve's question was what would be fair. My personal opinion would be closer to 15-20% of net sales going to the breeder for X number of years after release, with a decreasing scale after that for scenarios 1 & 2. Steve's scenario 3 and my scenario 4 are more murky and I honestly don't know the answer for those as I don't think they're really viable 'business' models but more indicative of an hobbiest situation.

May 6, 2013	#27
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	I doubt that any of the independant breeders are planning on retiring from the revenue derived from seed sales, but it's an unfortunate reality that the work of growing out 7-8 generations of a cross to arrive at a unique new product is easily given away once the seed has been released and grown out by others. Steve's question was what would be fair. My personal opinion would be closer to 15-20% of net sales going to the breeder for X number of years after release, with a decreasing scale after that for scenarios 1 & 2. Steve's scenario 3 and my scenario 4 are more murky and I honestly don't know the answer for those as I don't think they're really viable 'business' models but more indicative of an hobbiest situation.