SF 2356 Senate Long Description
Relating to agriculture; providing for seed availability and +competition; requiring and providing for farmers planting patented seed on owned +or leased land and seeking to retain seed from the harvest for replanting the +following season to register with the department of agriculture; imposing a fee+ per bushel retained, requiring a large portion of the fee to be paid by +the department to patent holders, authorizing use of the rest of the fee +for the cost of administering the registration system; creating the +genetically engineered seed fund for deposit of portions of the fee not used for administrative costs, appropriating money from the fund to the +university of Minnesota for agricultural research and development; limiting the +liability of farmers planting registered seed for health, safety and environmental+ impacts; imposing a penalty for violation of the requirements and authorizing +other remedies (ja)