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[...] Scotts got permission from the USDA to plant larger fields for seed production. Farmers sowed 80 acres of bentgrass in Canyon County, Idaho, and 420 acres in Jefferson County, Oregon, north of Bend. The Oregon Department of Agriculture picked the site - an irrigated island in the sagebrush sea - to keep the plant far from the Willamette Valley. There, on the western side of the mountains, farmers grow forage and turf grass for a $1 billion-a-year seed industry.
Then two windstorms swept through the eastern Oregon fields in August of 2013, scattering flea-sized seeds well beyond the designated control area. Roundup-resistant pollen fertilized conventional bentgrass plants as far as 13 miles away.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by dwilson on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:46AM
If you bought GMO seed that was contract-laden and saved some to re-plant in breach of contract, you're an idiot and deserve what you get.
If you grow and sell non-GMO seed, saving some for next year's planting (as... everyone, does?) and Monsanto or it's like come knocking, you tell them to Get Fucked (As my neighbour did). If they present compelling evidence your seed has been contaminated with their IP and you think they'll win a court case, or think they'll get around to bringing it to court, you apologize, settle out of court, chem-fallow your land for a year to murder their GMO crap and go down the road to John, Jim, Bob, or whomever-the-fuck-it-is who's anti-GMO and refuses to touch it, buy more non-GMO seed from him, and carry on. If you're smart, you get it tested (yearly!) and establish an iron-clad paper trail to prove you're not touching the stuff (also as my neighbour did) and spend your days cackling, hoping those bastards try again.
- D