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This is primarily targeted towards patented or similarly IP protected seeds, with the intent of making them more profitable for the seed developer so they will produce new varieties. How this will work with commercial farmers is a question I'm not equipped to answer, but on a personal level, this is a good reason to be conscientious about buying heritage and open source seeds.
Step 1: protect the IP protected seed genomes
Step 2: sue the crap out of people growing those types of plants who arent paying you. Edit: these are all soy beans including "public seed"
Step 3: increase the price now that you have a monopoly on that kind of seeds
Source: Monsanto and soy beans
Yeah, I get that, but keep in mind the case everyone refers to is a little more complicated than that. More like:
Protect the IP protected seeds genomes.
Have people save seeds from fields that have experienced blowover.
Use pesticides to kill off non-resistaseeplants from those saved seeds.
Repeat a few seasons.
Get the crap sued out of you for having knowingly bred for the pesticide resistant genes in your IP.
Now, I'm not saying this isn't shitty of Monsanto, but that still has no bearing on the economics for the farmer. If he can produce a better outcome for the dollar, perhaps it makes sense to go thenroute of buying IP-protected seeds. I can only assume this is true, or a lot more farmers would reject those seeds. Also, if the price gets too high, the non-IP plants will become more financially attractive and farmers would turn to them. Hence why I say I'm not equipped to say what makes more sense for them, but it's not a place I'd willingly put myself into.
in number 3, did you mean "herbicides"
The thing is, I understand that some farmers were doing that, but some others were simply trying to grow soybeans, and they didn't use herbicides, but Monsanto successfully sued them into never saving "soybean" seed ever again.