Chapter 638

It's Midsummer, and the fields in South Dakota are green. It seems that the expressways through the agricultural areas seldom pass by. After all, this is a big farm in the countryside, and there are few residents around. It's hard to meet an outsider on weekdays.

However, if someone pays close attention to this farmland, they will find that there seems to be no weeds in this farmland, only neat corn is densely growing in the field. Yes, this one is one of the customers of Monsanto molecular biology company. Their genetically modified corn seeds have occupied nearly 70% of the market in South Dakota in just one year, that is to say, 70% of the farmland uses Monsanto's corn seeds.

Why can Monsanto occupy such a large market in just one year? First of all, Monsanto's first customers can't do without them. Their land has been sprayed with too much Roundup herbicide. In addition to Monsanto's genetically modified crops, this land can't even grow grass. So the first batch of Monsanto customers didn't have a choice at all. Not only did they not have a choice, but they even needed Monsanto to decide what kind of crops they planted, because Monsanto's corn, soybean and other crops were resistant to Nongda. But if South Dakota grows too much corn, it will affect the price of corn. So when a farmer becomes a client of Monsanto, he has to follow Monsanto's advice if he wants to grow anything in the field.

South Dakota's agricultural system has been basically controlled by Karim. Now the largest grain buyer in the United States is Canada based witfa agricultural complex, which is a subsidiary of Glencore group in charge of agriculture. Witfa can control the production and variety of South Dakota's agricultural products through the seeds sold by Monsanto.

If this is the only way, it will be very difficult for Karim to win 70% of the market, so Karim has another way to help Monsanto dominate the seed market in South Dakota. That's Monsanto's ubiquitous intellectual property investigation department.

As early as a year ago, Monsanto just came to South Dakota to explore the market. Karim started to set up such a department. Karim is not a whim, but has his own consideration. As soon as Monsanto's GM corn and soybean were officially put on the market, Xie liaosha raised a question: what if farmers are not willing to use Monsanto's products? Although Nongda can bind old users of Monsanto, it cannot force users who have not used Monsanto's products to use GM seeds. For an unknown product, many farmers are reluctant to try. Americans like freedom by nature, and farmers don't want others to tell them what to do with their land. If we only rely on the competitiveness of Monsanto's genetically modified products to compete for the market, even if the patent expires, it is impossible to monopolize the whole American agriculture. Then what can we do to let American farmers plant their own crops according to Monsanto's requirements. There is only one answer, which is to force these people to become Monsanto's customers by using the complete intellectual property legal system of the United States.

So just after the first batch of customers developed, there would be many investigators sent by Monsanto around the farm. Especially in the season of pollen transmission. But these people are not just helping Monsanto customers monitor crop growth. They have a special mission. That's to use the pollen of crops in the fields where GM crops are grown to contaminate the same kind of crops that are not customers of Monsanto. What's more, the pollen that's blown away by the wind will make the crops in the neighborhood look like Monsanto. Pollination, the way plants have multiplied for thousands of years, became Monsanto's way of controlling American agriculture.

Monsanto's genetically modified crops are registered in the U.S. patent office. Anyone who uses Monsanto's genetically modified products without authorization is in violation of the U.S. patent law. Naturally, this also includes the pollen contaminated neighbor's farmland. Just as farmers are looking at the green farmland with a smile on their face, Monsanto's intellectual property investigators will drive here to provide farmers with evidence that their corn or soybean contains Monsanto's edited gene fragments. And then there was a lawyer's letter. There are only two options waiting for the farmers, one is to go to court and Sue Monsanto on the issue of intellectual property rights, the other is to accept Monsanto's settlement agreement and only plant Monsanto's crops in the next few years. When Monsanto is threatened by litigation, most people will choose the way of settlement, while a small number of wealthy and powerful farmers will refuse the settlement agreement, while the most luxurious team of intellectual property lawyers in the United States will fight back.

In this way, Monsanto's promotion effect in South Dakota is gratifying, and it is spreading to North Dakota. And those farmers who have been trapped in Monsanto's conspiracy can't get rid of Monsanto's control. Unless they don't grow food, they can only plant Monsanto's products in the farmland.

Karim has been working in the market for many years. Now the first thing to think about is interests. In Karim's view, although the patent protection in American law is very good, it also gives Monsanto, a technology monopoly, the opportunity to kill all its competitors. In South Dakota, Monsanto squeezed all its competitors out of the seed market in just a year. In North Dakota, Monsanto's products are unstoppable.

However, Monsanto's use of genetically modified crops is not limited to staple crops. According to the principle of herbicide resistance of Nongda and Petunia genes, as long as grass plants can be developed, it means that Monsanto's herbicide resistant crops can cover all grass crops, including vegetables on the table of most Americans, many grass fruits and so on.

Now in Monsanto's laboratory, almost every crop in the United States has a corresponding team to follow up research, and many of them have entered the end of research and development. Like Monsanto's genetically modified wheat.

Karim and Eva have enjoyed the great benefits of intellectual property, and the legal departments of Yota communications and Monsanto are exceptionally strong. They are always awed by their opponents, telling them that they are not easy to be provoked. In front of the big companies, those gold medal lawyers are just the home care thugs.