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Mid Michigan | Had an issue this fall. We grow non GMO soys for a crush plant a few hours away and have for about 6 years. Haven’t had a GMO bean anyway near our bin site or in any of our equipment in those 6 years. Company sends 8 axle trailers and huge hoppers and we pay for trucking to their plant. This year I had 2 loads rejected for GMO contamination and those proteins were from RR and liberty. We were forced to dump them as GMO beans and lost our $2 premium on 4000 bushel. Luckily I kept seed samples from all 4 varieties we grew. I mailed the seed samples to the state lab and one variety tested hot for exactly what the elevator found. Case closed, not sure how it happened but it did. I send the results to the DSM of this certain large seed company (everyone here knows them) and he passes the info (evidence) “up the chain”.
A few weeks later the DSM and sales guy show up during corn harvest expecting a corn/soybean seed order and tell me they haven’t heard what the uppers are doing about the issue and they’re trying to find what happened and where the contamination came from. I gave them a smaller corn seed order than I usually do with the understanding that this price isn’t moving and they are not getting a check until we are made whole. It has been almost a month since I’ve last heard anything on this subject and they still have not gotten a check from me. I’ve been really friendly with these guys over the past 10 years but I have plenty of other good company’s to choose from here and it wouldn’t be the end of the world if I didn’t grow their stuff this year but at what point do I cancel the order and lawyer up. I know it’s only 8k but it’s still 8k. Thanks for the input. | |
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Contaminated Non-GMO beans
