Monday, January 7, 2013

Moe Parr VS Monsanto

Moe Parr VS Monsanto

Interesting story here about my old friend Moe Parr.  He used  clean a lot of beans for me when we grew non GMO soybeans....But it seems now that it is totally illegal to save the seed from GMO soybeans and Moe has had to stop his little seed cleaning enterprise.  He is still cleaning non GMO seed for a few farmers that want to grow such soybeans for the specialty market.  I remember when GMO seeds were first introduced going to meeting to get us to use them.  And the tech fee was something like 5 dollars a bushel which was not a bad deal...And it was declared at those early meetings that it would only be maybe 5 or 10 years that the fee would be collected.  Just long enough for the companies to recoup the expenses they had in developing the beans....The tech fees never stopped only grew larger the past 20 years and not up to maybe 25 dollars a bag...And yields have not increased at all...So I guess the farmers are caught here between a rock and a hard place so to speak....