| Iowagreen - 9/14/2014 21:59
Aren't all beans patented? How u going to keep me legally?
Monsanto has supposedly released some varieties to seed dealers that carry the RR trait and will let you clean your own beans for seed.
http://www.soybeans.com/faq.aspx
What seed is eligible to be saved and planted by a farmer for his own use in 2015?
We have licensed independent seed companies to sell varieties of original Roundup Ready® seed that were developed by Monsanto breeders, and we are enabling those seed companies to provide farmers who purchase those varieties with special licenses to save and plant subsequently harvested seed of those varieties. These rights will only apply to Monsanto-developed varieties, and other breeders will set their own policies about whether to license farmers to plant saved seed of the varieties they developed.
Also, if a seed dealer was able to resurrect an old RR variety from the 1990s they could sell it without any variety license because both the technology patent on the RR trait AND the variety protection will have expired. Plant variety protection is 20 years as well. |
2015 acres
