If he wants to buy their beans for planting, he should pay the price. Otherwise, buying feed beans at feed prices implies a limitation on their use.
How so? There is no guarantee that these seeds will germinate or grow or be Roundup resistant. He tried something outside the box and it worked.
If I buy Purina Rat Chow and feed it to my dog, am I committing a crime? What if I consume the Rat Chow myself? What if someone uses food stamps to buy steak and feeds that to his dog?
If they wanted their Roundup Ready Soybeans to be useless as seed, then they should have engineered them to be non viable.
Its sad to hear the sound of corporatist fascism so early on Monday morning.
“Implied” phooey!
If he’d had to sign a legal agreement to take those beans, then maybe there’d be a case.
But if he didn’t, he can do with those beans what he wishes.
Monsanto is a disaster of a company, completely out of control, anyway.
Hmmm, if *they* really wanted to go after him, *they* should check and see if he has any diesel road vehicles with tax-free ag fuel in them...
I'm not hopeful that the USSC can sort it out based on existing US laws. Too many leftists look to foreign laws now. I heard about a Canadian case some years back about a adjacent farms, one of which used a GM seed, and the neighbor benefited somewhat from wind-blown pollen.
The Canadian court[s] somehow found for the seed company, the adjacent farmer reaping the benefits of their patent without paying for it.
I think that decision flies in the face of [English] common property law about liability for unintentional/unauthorized improvements to a property.
Although, it's been a while since I took that business law course as an undergrad.
>> Otherwise, buying feed beans at feed prices implies a limitation on their use.
“Implies”? Really?
Is there anything in the *sale contract* between the farmer and the feed supplier that *STATES UNEQUIVOCALLY* that feed beans shall not be planted?
If there is then the farmer violated his purchase terma and is in the wrong.
If not then Monsanto should lose.
This is how we do business here in America.
In general I would agree with that logic. But there needs to be some sort of riding herd over the seed companies’ bullying of farmers. I have heard of cases where the seed company will sue a farmer who keeps some of his own seed for planting the next crop year because his crop cross-pollinated with his neighbor’s crop even though the farmer being sued did not plant the hybrid seed.
Well first off Monsanto’s claim goes much deeper than this, they claim rights to outlying farmers seed that are progeny from their GM foodstuff even though it occurred naturally.
So if you’re a seed grower and a wind or bee colony decides to pollinate your crop with Pollen from Monsanto’s GM plants, Monsanto believes it has a right to lay claim to royalties.
said:”If he wants to buy their beans for planting, he should pay the price. Otherwise, buying feed beans at feed prices implies a limitation on their use.”
I say, Bull!!
Farmers and others for all of man’s existence have planted some of the harvested seed the next season.
This is like Monsanto suing farmers whose non-Monsanto crops were accidentally cross-pollinated by Monsanto varieties.
Having the only source of viable seeds be Monsanto is worse than foolish.
Maybe you want to lick the boot of big agri-business and their government lackeys to get your daily ration of Soylent Green but not all of us have surrendered.
The big-government/big-corporate criminal monopoly thanks you for your support.
We have a few more laws we would like to pass to strengthen our monopoly. Can we count on your support in the future?
“Otherwise, buying feed beans at feed prices implies a limitation on their use.”
Nope. If he intentionally bought a certain variety specifially for planting yes.
This guy just went to the elevator and bought beans to plant. He had no idea what he was getting.
Totally against our nations principals to prohibit something like this. We are a nation of free people. Free from government and from corporate over reach.
“Otherwise, buying feed beans at feed prices implies a limitation on their use.”
If there was an agreement made at the time of sale, then it would, but otherwise, nothing is implied. If you sell me a product with no strings attached, then I am free to do as I please with it.
So Senior Citizens should not be allowed to eat Cat Food then right?? After all that is not it’s implied use.