American Farmer Spreading Awareness, Read Every Word Of This 👇 “The seed companies are essentially bullying farmers into buying their seeds, which is another reason why your food is becoming so expensive” “Farmers can be and will be sued if they plant their own seeds” “Farmers don't own the rights to the genetics of their own seeds unless they're using heirloom seeds. So in order to have the right to plant these seeds, we have to pay a fee. The seed company can actually come on to your property, check your plants, and if the plant has any trace of their genetics, they sue the farmer. So all that hard work growing the plant, yeah, we don't own it. And the seed companies love to remind us this, by saying, we know you bought our seed last year, so if you don't buy seed again from us, we're gonna be auditing you. So my order of three totes just came in, enough to plant 300 acres of soybeans, and to have the right to plant them cost me over $30,000”
Source, Farmer here: First off, this has been going on for almost 30 years. Monsanto started it all, with the very first "Round-up Ready" corn via DeKalb seeds (first commercially grown). They essentially won in court that they have a patent on life. 2ndly, with respect to corn and soybeans, only beans with beans, can the very product you produce be planted again to grow the same variety of plant (meaning taking out the soybean and plopping it right in the ground again to grow a soybean plant). You take a kernal of corn off field corn and you will get what's called "volunteer corn" plant which might as well be a weed. That's why if you are either growing field corn (to be harvested for food, ethanol etc.,) or seed corn (to grow more corn). "Seed corn production requires two different plants types, males and female. Female plants have the male part removed, while males plants have tassels intact to shed pollen onto female row silks. The seeds created then carry genetics from both parents." - hence "detasseling. So now you have the basics... Many farmers, (every one I knew) would reuse their beans every single year. You save a few thousand bushel (dependin on your acreage) and have the beans cleaned and ready for planting the next season. You can imagine the plants and natural veriaties that developed all over the country in certain conditions. Evolution, production, yield, etc., etc., all making that 100+ year old variety as perfect for the farmer using them. In comes round-up ready GMO garbage. As talked about before with polination, all it took was pollen to blow into the next field and Monsanto could claim the seeds / property was theirs. No more cleaning your own beans. No more producing your own seed corn. And how were they able to successfully sue everyone into oblivion that tried to tell Monsanto to f' off and farm like they have been for 100's of years prior? Monsanto literally had secret agents that would infiltrate fields, steal farmers plants etc., to gentically test them to make sure their pollen was mixed with everyone's crop. We actually caught the goons in our fields several times. They are lucky they weren't shot. Regardless, every single farmer that tried to push back and went to court.., every single one of them lost their ass or worse, their farm. So trust me in saying it's not the farmer that wants anything to do with GMO. Thank the government, the lobbyists, the politicians, the evil fvcks everywhere that did this. And worse, they are well on their way with absolutely destroying all the meat supply as well.
@WallStreetApes They are already starting to make people register chickens, even small backyard flocks. It's absurd, and it needs to stop. They've quietly been taking over the entire agricultural industry for decades. Everyone should be concerned.
@WallStreetApes In a messed up way this kind of makes sense… but I had no idea. Farmer bought their seeds from companies in the first place.
@WallStreetApes @JeffKin28968083 Without some sort of warrant or court order the seed companies have no right to set foot on your property unless you've signed some sort of agreement to that effect. I would think this issue could be easily resolved with legislation at the state and/or federal level.
@WallStreetApes He might need to lay off the soybeans..
@WallStreetApes This is exactly who GMO seeds are banned in Mexico. They want them to plant their seeds, but they found that the wind blows them into heirloom fields and then they can sue that farmer. That's why they say no to GMO. We need to start pushing back.
@WallStreetApes Wasn't this an issue with Monsanto owning rights to a strain of soybean.....planting their crop in neighboring farms and then when cross pollination occurred by the forces of nature....suing those neighboring farmers for growing their strains?
@WallStreetApes I’m ignorant on the topic. Why can they not use heirloom seeds instead? Are they more expensive? Also why do they only grow corn and soybeans? Couldn’t profit be made from growing stuff that people actually eat?
@WallStreetApes this is the problem with Monsanto owns everything
@WallStreetApes This is what college kids should be protesting.