Great breakdown of how this legislative push played out. The lock-in between seed patents and matching herbicides is the pice that doesn't get enough attention, farmers aren't just buying a product, they're entering a dependency system. I've seen similar vendor lock-in dinamics in tech infrastructure.
The point of business is to get bigger and more profitable. You can either do that through making a better product or providing a better service or creating monopolies. More often than not companies choose to create monopolies.
Great breakdown of how this legislative push played out. The lock-in between seed patents and matching herbicides is the pice that doesn't get enough attention, farmers aren't just buying a product, they're entering a dependency system. I've seen similar vendor lock-in dinamics in tech infrastructure.
The point of business is to get bigger and more profitable. You can either do that through making a better product or providing a better service or creating monopolies. More often than not companies choose to create monopolies.