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Monsanto, at one level or another. While they pinky-promise to not sue, if their corn gets into your corn and you replant the seeds, they've fought about it in
by indrora 2y ago
Monsanto, at one level or another. While they pinky-promise to not sue, if their corn gets into your corn and you replant the seeds, they've fought about it in court to mixed results.
- colechristensen 2y agoAlmost nobody replants their own corn. Almost all corn planted is an F1 hybrid, the first generation of a cross between two varieties. Subsequent generations perform very much worse. This is a natural thing not an engineered thing, many plants on the first generation cross between two varieties perform much better. Most corn is also patent encumbered, but that is less of the reason. Soybeans are actually different and before all of the patented genetics people did sometimes replant their own grown seed.
- to11mtm 2y agoI thought Canola (which is a disturbing plant in general for food use) was their big hitter for that sort of thing?
- cyberax 2y ago> While they pinky-promise to not sue They will not only "not sue", but they will compensate you for the cost of the contamination. The only court cases where Monsanto (now Bayer) got damages involved farmers knowingly and intentionally replanting Monsanto's seeds.