Comments on: Seed Cleaners and Monsanto http://blog.monsantoblog.com/2009/02/16/seed-cleaners-and-monsanto/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:55:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ewan Ross http://blog.monsantoblog.com/2009/02/16/seed-cleaners-and-monsanto/#comment-460 Ewan Ross Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:13:38 +0000 http://accordingtomonsanto.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-460 Nancy - I'm not sure that this has ever happened http://www.monsanto.com/seedpatentprotection/sales_vs_suits.asp http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/ag_products/stewardship/unintened_trace_presence.asp http://www.monsanto.com/seedpatentprotection/ (links from Kates post on another blog) In short Monsanto only prosecutes farmers where it believes there has been a knowing and deliberate violation of intellectual property rights (such as thecase of Percy Schmeisser who selected for GM canola in his field by spraying said field with roundup, collected seeds from the surviving plants, and then planted 1000 acres with these seeds) The choice facing all farmers is to not deliberately infringe patent laws - 99.95% of growers in the past 10 years have managed this just fine, the farmer in your hypothetical case does not, and will not exist. Nancy – I’m not sure that this has ever happened

http://www.monsanto.com/seedpatentprotection/sales_vs_suits.asp

http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/ag_products/stewardship/unintened_trace_presence.asp

http://www.monsanto.com/seedpatentprotection/

(links from Kates post on another blog)

In short Monsanto only prosecutes farmers where it believes there has been a knowing and deliberate violation of intellectual property rights (such as thecase of Percy Schmeisser who selected for GM canola in his field by spraying said field with roundup, collected seeds from the surviving plants, and then planted 1000 acres with these seeds)

The choice facing all farmers is to not deliberately infringe patent laws – 99.95% of growers in the past 10 years have managed this just fine, the farmer in your hypothetical case does not, and will not exist.

]]> By: Nancy Hediger http://blog.monsantoblog.com/2009/02/16/seed-cleaners-and-monsanto/#comment-271 Nancy Hediger Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:00:19 +0000 http://accordingtomonsanto.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-271 Would you please address the following questions. When Monsanto sues a farmer who saves seed that has cross pollinated with gm seed, which he had no way to prevent, why does the court not find for the farmer who is trying to make living the way he has done his entire life? Do you know of any other choices for him besides using Monsanto seeds or going out of business? Would you please address the following questions.
When Monsanto sues a farmer who saves seed that has cross pollinated with gm seed, which he had no way to prevent, why does the court not find for the farmer who is trying to make living the way he has done his entire life? Do you know of any other choices for him besides using Monsanto seeds or going out of business?

]]> By: Shaun Haney http://blog.monsantoblog.com/2009/02/16/seed-cleaners-and-monsanto/#comment-7 Shaun Haney Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:31:47 +0000 http://accordingtomonsanto.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-7 Very good post. I think that people need to understand the benefits of bio tech and spend less time assuming the worst. As a seed cleaner myself I strongly believe in intellectual property. People need to realize that in all crops if we do not return money back to the breeder then it is a self fullfilling prophecy for the genetics business in the future. In Canada this is what has held cereal genetics from advanceing. In cereals there is low amounts of money flowing into research due to low uses of certified seed and the ability for breeders to execute a return. Very good post. I think that people need to understand the benefits of bio tech and spend less time assuming the worst. As a seed cleaner myself I strongly believe in intellectual property. People need to realize that in all crops if we do not return money back to the breeder then it is a self fullfilling prophecy for the genetics business in the future. In Canada this is what has held cereal genetics from advanceing. In cereals there is low amounts of money flowing into research due to low uses of certified seed and the ability for breeders to execute a return.

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