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Brazilian soybean farmers oppose contract with Monsanto to end royalties’ dispute

Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 04:45 UTC
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Brazilian farmer groups are opposing a contract that Monsanto the world’s biggest seed company is offering farmers to end a dispute over royalty payments on its genetically modified soybean seeds. Monsanto is trying to resolve uncertainty over its ability to collect fees on its new Intacta soybeans, which it is scheduled to start selling in Brazil during the next growing season. Read full article

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  • rylang23

    Sr. Silveira says ”“We believe producers are being tricked into signing a contract that will get them trapped to Monsanto for every new technology” and he is exactly correct. The farmers must reject EVERY contract that Monsanto puts on the table. It will be worded to look like a short term benefit, but it will never be a long term benefit for the farmer's. Monsanto is out to destroy the the world, one bio-system and one farmer at a time. See this if you don't believe what I am saying: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/19/1607161/monsanto-supreme-court-hearing/
    and this to see who the courts will back if a farmer is taken to court: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/19/1607161/monsanto-supreme-court-hearing/

    Okay, Trolls.... you can come out now.

    Feb 21st, 2013 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (1) rylang23

    I have been called a “Troll” so many times in here that I feel entitled to anserw you ;-)

    Seriously now, except for the part where you say “Monsanto is out to destroy the the World”; I fully agree with your assesment.....

    Life is to important a thing to be the private property of a Missourian Corporation, well known for some of its products as DDT, PCB, Agent Orange and Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin.

    Feb 21st, 2013 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rylang23

    (2) It may not be in Monsanto's Mission Statement nor its yearly reports, but the destruction of bio-diversity is exactly what Monsanto is about. As they would put it in private, “We want to control all of the seeds in the world being used for growing food”, which means all seed will become GMO, which means death to bio-diversity in the food chain. So, allow me to restate that sentence you pointed out:“Monsanto cares only about its profits, and will severely damage the bio-deversity and long term food security of the world in the pursuit of its stated goals”.

    Feb 21st, 2013 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    That's more like it .......
    Somebody should stop those guys.....

    Feb 21st, 2013 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    My advice is stop buying the seeds and the pesticides immediately. Go back to the seeds you were using prior to the Round Up ready and watch your yields plummet along with your income.

    Argentina in particular has nothing else to offer the world. Ask CFK if she wants to stop selling soy.
    Idiots

    Feb 21st, 2013 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    Irrespective of the merits or otherwise of GM, Monsanto single handedly manages to give the whole industry a bad name.

    Feb 22nd, 2013 - 01:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    See yankeeboy? Seems like a lot of people are turning away from your ways of making business. Why so desperate on getting everybody on your train of free trade? You fear to feel all alone at the bottom?

    Feb 22nd, 2013 - 02:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    I predict absolutely no one will turn away from my system, and thank you for billing me as the creator of capitalism it's a little late and I am not that old.

    In the end the Brazilian farmers will come to agreement with Monsanto or be forced to use pre 90s seeds that will kill their yields. They have no choice.

    Feb 22nd, 2013 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220082: Forced to use pre 1990 seeds as they did before 2005? I think not.

    The issue is the levy. The farmers have won every court case so far. And Monsanto will loose its further appeals.

    Feb 22nd, 2013 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Monsanto will never be in the position to sell to anyone it doesn't want to. The Brazilians will agree or be forced out of the SOY business.
    Totally up to them.

    Feb 22nd, 2013 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220145: Before 2005 the GM seed used was not bought from Monsanto. If Monsanto does not sell then the farmers will get the seed from the same source as they did pre 2005.

    In any case Monsanto has registered the patent in Brazil. If Monsanto refuses to sell then Brazil will break the patent under law.

    Feb 22nd, 2013 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    I don't think that would go over very well with the USA gov't and in the end Brazil will pay Monsanto for the patent anyway. Monsanto can block the sale of the their patented Soy until it is paid just like they did with Argentina a few years ago.
    Do you know nothing of which you speak?

    Feb 22nd, 2013 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Go to EMBRAPA brothers. The better agricultural research in the world. 90% of the technology in the farms of Brasil is EMBRAPA, not Monsanto.
    EMBRAPA = EMpresa BRAsileira de Pesquisas Agrícolas

    Feb 22nd, 2013 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220165: When Brazil has broken patents held by US corporations (because they have not complied with Brazilian law) in the past the US government has done nothing. Why should it be different now?

    Feb 23rd, 2013 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Show me the links because you are so very wrong as usual.

    Feb 23rd, 2013 - 02:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    This is begin....if you want more, take me........Do you are Obama Bin Laden?

    Feb 23rd, 2013 - 02:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    16. Those are English words but whatever you typed is certainly not English.

    Feb 23rd, 2013 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Sorry, i dont speak and dont understand englisee. But, yours words about our civilization i can to understand. Please, peace when you to speak about our civilization. I like USA because democracy, liberty and EDUCATION is everything. Thanks brother.

    Feb 23rd, 2013 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220295: I would have thought that you could have found the links yourself. Brazil has broken patents a number of times - in 2000 and 2006 IIRC. All this has been covered extensively. Here is one link: http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220295:

    Feb 24th, 2013 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Well that article says “Brazil plans..in retaliation...” not quite the same thing
    so try again
    loser

    Feb 24th, 2013 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220658: It mentions past instances as part of the over view. As I have said these have been widely reported at the time.

    Monsanto is going to loose this one.

    Feb 25th, 2013 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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