Re: why don't farmers save seed corn?.

Posted by JMS/MN on November 10, 2003 at 22:44:31 from (65.178.209.58):

In Reply to: why don't farmers save seed corn?. posted by Jonathan on November 09, 2003 at 19:51:08:

The simple answer is that corn grown from hybrid seed will not produce anywhere near what the hybrid variety did. Seed corn is grown from two PARENT lines, and produces very little yield- 25- 70 bu per acre or so, depending on the year and conditions. The seed from those parent lines is the HYBRID VARIETY that the farmer plants. If he saves seed from that, it produces squat. It has been that way since hybrids were developed in the 1930s or so. Not a recent innovation. Development of hybrid corn is one of the most important innovations of agriculture in the last century. Soybeans are a different ball game, since farmers can save seed from one year and get reasonable yields from that saved seed. Monsanto, with it's Roundup-Ready technology, imposes a technology fee on companies that produce seed with that technology, and the companies pass that fee along to the farmer, along with demanding an agreement that the farmer not use seed produced from the subsequent crop. (Brownbagging). It is all spelled out in the sales agreement when the farmer buys the GM seed.

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