Virtually all soybeans raised for domestic crushing contain either the Monsanto patented trait or the Bayer patented trait. If the farmer didn't know which beans he had purchased, he wouldn't know which herbicide to apply. If he had applied the wrong herbicide, he would have killed all beans which didn't carry the patented trait.
Yeah , I understand that ... the farmer is OK in my book , the elevator that sold the seeds knowing they were Monsanto should have been the ones sued ... the farmer merely tested the plants for resistance and let the ones that survived go to seed... Allowing living things to be patented leads to this type of lunacy... As others have noted Monsanto didn’t “create” this strain ,, they discovered it by testing thousands of plants and letting the resistant ones go to seed ... exactly what the farmer did.