Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 6020 THE 1970s was a much different time for Canadian seed growers. Canada’s first Plant Breeders Rights Act was still 20 years away, and independent seeds- men throughout the country were watching new varieties pass them by, as they were often shut out of getting access to the latest genetics being developed by breeders. Getting breeder seed was challenging, and there was little public promotion of new varieties. Ontario’s Lorne Fell, 84, remembers those days. The now- retired seed grower and SeCan past director recalls the uncertainty growers like him faced in the mid-1970s. “Because plant breeders wanted to be paid, they were licensing their varieties to the bigger businesses. So, the growers came together and started talking about the need to have a method of putting these new seeds into the grow- ers’ hands,” Fell says. SeCan was born, and is now the largest supplier of Certified seed to Canadian farmers with hundreds of independent Saluting the Past, Looking to the Future SeCan celebrates 40 years by facing modern challenges head-on, while staying focused on its No. 1 goal. Eighty-four-year-old Lorne Fell, a past director of SeCan, recalls the uncertainty growers like him faced in the seed sector of the mid-1970s, before SeCan existed.