It's the height of summer, and the farmlands of South Dakota are full of greenery.
The highway that passes through the agricultural area seems to be rarely passed, after all, this is a large farm in the countryside, and there are few residents around.
It's hard to meet an outsider on a normal day.
However, if one takes a closer look at this farmland, it seems that there is not a single weed in this farmland, only neat corn growing densely in the field.
That's right, this one is one of Monsanto's Molecular Biologics customers, whose genetically modified corn seeds have captured almost 70 percent of South Dakota's market in just one year, which means that 70% of the farmland is made with Monsanto's corn seeds.
Why was Monsanto able to occupy such a large market in just one year?
First of all, Monsanto's first customers couldn't do without them at all, their land had been sprayed with too many Roundup herbicides, and in addition to Monsanto's genetically modified crops, this land couldn't even grow dog tail grass.
So the first batch of Monsanto's customers didn't have a choice at all, not only did they not have a choice, but they even needed Monsanto to decide the type of crops they planted, because Monsanto's corn, soybeans and other crops were resistant to Roundup.
But if too much corn is grown in South Dakota, it can affect the price of corn.
So when a farmer becomes a Monsanto customer, he has to do whatever he wants to grow in the field.
South Dakota's agricultural system has been largely controlled by Karim, and the nation's largest grain buyer is Canada-based Wittfa Agribusiness, an agriculture subsidiary of the Glencore Group.
Wittifa can control the production and variety of South Dakota's agricultural products through the seeds sold by Monsanto.
If this is the only means, it will be difficult for Karim to win 70% of the market, so Karim has another means to help Monsanto dominate the seed market in South Dakota.
That's Monsanto's ubiquitous intellectual property investigation department.
A year earlier, Monsanto had just come to South Dakota to explore the market.
Karim set out to set up such a department.
Karim didn't do it on a whim, but had his own considerations.
Soon after Monsanto's genetically modified corn and soybeans were officially introduced to the market, Seryosha raised the question of what to do if farmers were unwilling to use Monsanto's products.
For an unknown product, many farmers are reluctant to try it.
Americans love freedom by nature, and farmers don't want others to dictate their land.
If we only rely on the competitiveness of Monsanto's genetically modified products to compete for the market, even if the patent expires, it is impossible to monopolize the entire American agriculture, so what is the way to get American farmers to grow their own crops according to Monsanto's requirements?
There is only one answer, and that is to use the well-established intellectual property legal system in the United States to force these people to become Monsanto's customers.
So just as the first customers developed, there were a lot of Monsanto investigators around the farm.
This is especially true during pollen-spreading seasons.
But these people don't just help Monsanto's customers monitor the growth of their crops, they also have a special mission.
That is, pollen from crops grown in fields where genetically modified crops are planted to contaminate the same crops of neighbors who are not Monsanto's customers.
On top of that, the pollen that drifts in the wind can give the neighbors' crops a Monsanto character.
Pollination, the way plants reproduce for thousands of years, has become Monsanto's way of controlling American agriculture.
Monsanto's genetically modified crops are registered with the U.S.
Patent Office, and anyone using Monsanto's genetically modified products without authorization is a violation of U.S. patent law.
This also includes pollen-contaminated farmland from neighbors.
As farmers smile as they look at the green farmland, Monsanto's intellectual property investigators come in their cars and provide farmers with evidence that their corn or soybeans contain gene fragments edited by Monsanto.
And with that, there is also a lawyer's letter.
The only two options await farmers are to go to court and litigate Monsanto over intellectual property issues, or to accept Monsanto's settlement agreement and grow Monsanto's crops for the next few years.
In the face of Monsanto's threat of lawsuits, most people will opt for a settlement, while a small number of wealthy farmers will reject the settlement, and they will be met with a response from the most luxurious team of intellectual property lawyers in the United States.
Under this semi-coercive marketing approach, Monsanto's promotion in South Dakota has been successful and is spreading to North Dakota.
And the farmers who have fallen into the Monsanto conspiracy will not be able to escape Monsanto's control at all, and unless they do not grow food, the fields will only be able to sow Monsanto's products.
In Karim's view, although the protection of patents under US law is good, it also gives a technology monopoly like Monsanto the opportunity to kill all opponents.
In South Dakota, Monsanto squeezed all competitors out of the seed market in just one year.
And in North Dakota, Monsanto's products are simply unstoppable.
However, Monsanto's use of genetically modified crops is not limited to staple crops, according to the principle of Roundup and petunia gene herbicide resistance, as long as it is a grass, it can be developed, which means that Monsanto's herbicide-resistant crops can cover all grasses, including most of the vegetables on the table of Americans, many grasses and fruits.
Now, in Monsanto's labs, almost every crop in the United States has a team to follow up on it, and many of them are in the final stages of research and development.
For example, Monsanto's genetically modified wheat.
Both Karim and Eva have enjoyed the tremendous benefits of intellectual property, and the legal departments of Yota Communications and Monsanto are exceptionally strong.
They always intimidate the opponents who feel them the most, telling them that they are not easy to mess with.
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