Black farmers were deliberately sold ‘fake seeds’ in scheme to steal their land: report

[camille70]

Black farmers in the Mid-South region surrounding Memphis used science to uncover a multi-million scheme to put them out of business and steal their farmland, WMC News reported Tuesday.

At the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show show in March of 2017, African-American farmers believe that Stine Seed Company purposefully sold them fake seeds.


Thomas Burrell, president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, explained how black farmers were receiving one-tenth of the yield as their white neighbors.

“Mother nature doesn’t discriminate,” Burrell said. “It doesn’t rain on white farms but not black farms. Insects don’t [only] attack black farmers’ land…why is it then that white farmers are buying Stine seed and their yield is 60, 70, 80, and 100 bushels of soybeans and black farmers who are using the exact same equipment with the exact same land, all of a sudden, your seeds are coming up 5, 6, and 7 bushels?”

The results were so stark, resulting in millions of dollars in losses, the farmers took their seeds for scientific testing by experts at Mississippi State University.


Read the rest @ https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/bl...ely-sold-fake-seeds-scheme-steal-land-report/

 

[drjean]

THAT WOULD IRRITATE ME TO NO END! It's bad enough just to be taken, but to be "taken" because you're black? grrrrrr I hope they sue.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

ALL the farmers are being robbed. Possibly all of them everywhere.

Far worse than just one race.

All the people , especially the poor, are being oppressed also...

by a PRACTICE SIMILAR to fake seeds ------- I don't know what it is called,
but it became known years ago, and there's almost NOTHING anyone can do about this

since the devil has serious control over so much....

seeds that grow plants that will not reproduce/ propagate/ cannot be used for the next planting !

Thus requiring the stricken farmers, of any race, creed or color,
to buy all new seeds for all they want to grow again,

when , as God Created them, for 6000 years, the plants USED TO BE
ongoing re-seedable (or whatever the term is) ....

farmers did not have to buy seed every year , no,
their crops/ plants were ALIVE
and they
could just use each years crops to seed the next year,

until the devil stepped in, (allowed by voters, btw) .....

and plants that will not reproduce were created.... and almost exclusively what the farmers were able to get....

 

[Humble me Lord]

Sounds like they do have a really good case to do so. Hopefully they can match high powered lawyers as the huge seed companies undoubtedly have, and deep pockets.

I was confused at first with the description "fake seeds". I doubt that any farmer would not know what an actual seed looked like. But I can see if it were intentionally poor seed.

 

[dqhall]

Black farmers in the Mid-South region surrounding Memphis used science to uncover a multi-million scheme to put them out of business and steal their farmland, WMC News reported Tuesday.

At the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show show in March of 2017, African-American farmers believe that Stine Seed Company purposefully sold them fake seeds.


Thomas Burrell, president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, explained how black farmers were receiving one-tenth of the yield as their white neighbors.

“Mother nature doesn’t discriminate,” Burrell said. “It doesn’t rain on white farms but not black farms. Insects don’t [only] attack black farmers’ land…why is it then that white farmers are buying Stine seed and their yield is 60, 70, 80, and 100 bushels of soybeans and black farmers who are using the exact same equipment with the exact same land, all of a sudden, your seeds are coming up 5, 6, and 7 bushels?”

The results were so stark, resulting in millions of dollars in losses, the farmers took their seeds for scientific testing by experts at Mississippi State University.


Read the rest @ https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/bl...ely-sold-fake-seeds-scheme-steal-land-report/

The farmers should be reimbursed for their loses.

 

[Kevin Snow]

Monsanto is what needs to die by an act of war. They are able to do these kinds of things and it must be stopped.

 

[Desk trauma]

Monsanto is what needs to die by an act of war. They are able to do these kinds of things and it must be stopped.

 

[Kevin Snow]

Sorry. I'm easily enraged to max level when it comes to corruption in farming. I would declare war on Monsanto and utterly destroy their business. I would set free the seeds from genetic modification and create a world bank of organic non GMO seeds. I would make it free for everyone as a service to them. The seeds are our life.

 

[Desk trauma]

Sorry. I'm easily enraged to max level when it comes to corruption in farming. I would declare war on Monsanto and utterly destroy their business.

Why?

I would set free the seeds from genetic modification and create a world bank of organic non GMO seeds.

Are you going to volunteer to be among the billions to starve or are you expecting others to do the dying?

I would make it free for everyone as a service to them. The seeds are our life.

...or just the less productive predeceases of current strains.

 

[majj27]

Why?

To be fair, Monsanto is a pretty dirty player (although we can argue on whether they're just a dirty player by choice or if enforcement on them has been overly lax).

I agree about GMO, though. Unnecessary mass starvation doesn't sound like a good thing. I know, I'm such a radical.

 

[Desk trauma]

To be fair, Monsanto is a pretty dirty player (although we can argue on whether they're just a dirty player by choice or if enforcement on them has been overly lax).

I will grant that they seem to be a less then wonderful company but have a hard time straining their real malfeasance out of the hysterical rantings of their opponents who would oppose their work even if they were perfectly ethical in its pursuit.

 

[dgiharris]

The farmers should be reimbursed for their loses.

It needs to go well beyond reimbursement...

 

[Radagast]

The farmers should be reimbursed for their loses.

These farmers had poor crop yields, and, in their words, “something aint right!” They allege that a distributor sold them a different kind of seed than the one they paid for.

They've filed a lawsuit against the seed company that makes the seed that they thought they were buying. The seed company says it did nothing wrong.

It seems to me that the farmers have no evidence that anybody did anything wrong. In particular, they didn't get anyone to genetically test their seeds. I don't think they have much chance of winning in court.

 

[jardiniere]

These farmers had poor crop yields, and, in their words, “something aint right!” They allege that a distributor sold them a different kind of seed than the one they paid for.

They've filed a lawsuit against the seed company that makes the seed that they thought they were buying. The seed company says it did nothing wrong.

It seems to me that the farmers have no evidence that anybody did anything wrong. In particular, they didn't get anyone to genetically test their seeds. I don't think they have much chance of winning in court.

...
The results were so stark, resulting in millions of dollars in losses, the farmers took their seeds for scientific testing by experts at Mississippi State University.

The tests revealed the black farmers had not been given the quality “certified” Stine seeds for which they had paid....

Sounds like evidence to me.

 

[Radagast]

Sounds like evidence to me.

Well, the fact that the farmers lost money is not evidence of anything.

And when you read about the details of the "tests" that were done at Mississippi State University, they were not evidence of anything either.

I've read the actual lawsuit, and there really isn't much substance to it.