National Variety Name Registration
A National Variety Name Registration should be established in the Federal Seed Act for all agricultural and vegetable crops, and it is recommended that adequate funding be provided for variety name registration over current budget allocations or registration fees be implemented to administer the program. This program should be established because the release of new varieties into commerce has greatly increased with the advent of genetic engineering, the large proliferation of new variety releases are difficult to track and regulate, there is no national variety name registration within the United States, some cultivars may be illegally marketed by different variety names from one company to the next, confusion exists between variety labeling and brand labeling for some crop kinds, and some mixtures of agricultural crops are incorrectly labeled as single varieties.