How Everyone Pays the Cost for Patents on Seeds, and Private Companies Get Rich From Keeping Them Secret
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Taxpayers subsidies meant to help farmers raise their crops instead flow to a few powerful companies who control the seeds—and the prices.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has found that two companies control more than 70 percent of U.S. corn and soybean seed sales, and the top four cottonseed companies control nearly 94 percent of that market. In a May 2026 court filing in a legal dispute between two U.S. seed companies, the Department of Justice […]

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  • Chais@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Almost like applying IP laws to stuff that literally self-replicates is an idiotic idea. Not that IP laws are much better in general.