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bakwoodsfarm wrote: I replanted my RR1 beans from last year with great results. My neighbor that farms 2500 acres said he will never replant anything because they will not yield but half. I don't see it myself. Even if they do yield half, you only have $9.00/bag in them instead of $50 or more. The only problem is wet springs with no treatment but you can buy it and apply yourself.

What a stupid statement, where do idiots think these beans come from every year ? Farmers grow them,Put them in the bin. The seed company picks them up, they clean them and put them in bags. No different then you or l would do.

So if I plant bin run beans from the neighbor, does Monsanto have to do DNA testing to know if they are RR1? How do they find out who's planting what to sue the right people?

Well, I have never bought soybeans from any neighbor  Actually, I have never planted anything but what he cleans out of his planter when he's done and that goes for my deer plots which I have never harvested. All of a 1/4 acre maybe!
 I was thinking of making up a good story so the Monsanto trolls would waste a bunch of time and money checking me out


Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 14 Sep 2016 at 6:01pm

I know guys around here who have been keeping and cleaning their own beans around here forever...even before the patents came off...u hear stories of guys getting caught but I don't know any of them...I know a guy that kept his liberty beans last year replanted them and nobody ever said a word...I suppose if you're a big time operator u may be in jeopardy but the little guys can go unoticed as long as they're not trying to get the rebate on the chemical too

That's because you love in the people's republic of Illinois...big brother is always watching over there...move east Ilgleaner we will make room for u in the good ole red Hoosier state....by the way corn is down to 18% and only making bout 150 over here...lot of guys very disappointed,thought it was gonna be a bumper crop...just too hot for too long over here this summer...oh well farming never has been easy

That's about like playing with fire. There's a local guy that got caught saving roundup beans that can't buy anything but conventional now. I don't know how he even gets a combine through his beans they are so bad.

I know two guys who got caught. One of them is a family friend. He is in his 80's and only farms about 200 acres. He told my dad don't ever save seed beans and there were tears in his eyes. That was about 10 years ago.

ILGLEANER wrote: bakwoodsfarm wrote: I replanted my RR1 beans from last year with great results. My neighbor that farms 2500 acres said he will never replant anything because they will not yield but half. I don't see it myself. Even if they do yield half, you only have $9.00/bag in them instead of $50 or more. The only problem is wet springs with no treatment but you can buy it and apply yourself. What a stupid statement, where do idiots think these beans come from every year ? Farmers grow them,Put them in the bin. The seed company picks them up, they clean them and put them in bags. No different then you or l would do.

Yeah his neighbor must have been listening to all of those university extension specialists who were saying that saving seed is not a good idea (even though the patents are off)  claiming it wouldn't yield as well.   I heard several of them say that and read several articles written by extension specialists to that effect.  I have a pretty good idea where their research $$$ were coming from. 






Edited by VAfarmboy - 16 Sep 2016 at 2:08pm