[Mr. Lucky]

Farmers don't keep corn for seed. Virtually all yellow dent corn (field corn) is hybrid and it will not reproduce true to form. But let's assume you're a farmer who grows some heirloom variety of open pollinated corn on the east side of a farmer with a field full of Round Up Ready or Liberty Link corn. Your corn will have been cross pollinated by the adjacent field, but that cross pollination will be substantially less than the pollination from closer corn in your field; it won't empart any advantage to your corn because you won't know which pistil was pollinated by which stamen.

The farmers who have found themselves in court have been unable to explain how their entire field was cross pollinated by a neighbors more distant plants, rather than plants from the same field and how they knew it would be.

[Mr. Know It All]

The farmers who have found themselves in court have been unable to explain how their entire field was cross pollinated by a neighbors more distant plants, rather than plants from the same field and how they knew it would be.

That's certainly true in a lot of cases. Someone mentioned a Canadian case upthread. What most people are not told is that the farmer who was sued sold his own line of hybrid seeds and claimed -- get this -- that his canola was contaminated with Monsanto seed that fell off a passing truck. As you know, not a credible story.