The guy bought the seed from the grain elevator... what does that have to do with seed saving? I can see banning the former but people should be able to reuse their seed.
(BTW, I worked like 6 summers for Monsanto detasseling corn)
(BTW, I worked like 6 summers for Monsanto detasseling corn)
The problem is that Monsanto claims to own the rights to all resulting seeds from their original, forever into the future. This includes cross pollination. So they want farmers who never agreed to use their seed in their crops to pay up because nature does its thing and everyone's crop ends up with characteristics of Monsanto's seed.
The solution is for every farmer to pay Monsanto or ban nature.
Then you count how many seeds. There's a trespass charge for each and every one of them. After all, their seeds are their property.
One possible way is to wait until the patent runs out, introduce a new version of the seed with a new patent, force all their farmer customers to start using new seed, wait until that seed spreads naturally, start suing again, rinse and repeat.