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Show #659: THE SEED GIANTS
Guests: Steve Hixson from Steve’s Seed Conditioning in Claremont, Illinois
Subject: Four seed companies now control 75% of the seed marketplace, and two of them– Monsanto and DuPont– are at slugging each other out in court for more. The concentration of seeds in the hands of these giants leads us to ask… Do the seed giants strengthen or weaken our food chain?
Topics include how four companies came to control so much of the nation’s seeds; how those giant companies control the competition for seed dollars; and why the USDA is holding public hearings on this consolidation.