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Re:Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto by roywiggins on Thursday April 21, 2016 @07:56PM (#11546169)
In corn at least, hybrid vigor usually means the 2nd generation crop isn't very good and farmers almost always buy new seed every year. This isn't true for all crops, but for corn, buying new seed was common long before GMOs.

http://passel.unl.edu/pages/informationmodule.php?idinformat... > The crop produced from open-pollinated seed harvested from a single-cross hybrid will not be as productive as the original single cross.

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Re:Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto by a_bonobo on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:32PM (#11546309)
This is the correct reason - this has been going on since at least Norman Borlaug's work (the Green Revolution), you can't just keep on seeding your seeds you bought, the seed company has to keep on recreating hybrids.

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread, as usual on this topic.

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