Why It’s Illegal for Farmers to Plant Their Own Seeds

American farmers are facing a big problem. The seeds they use to grow all that food on end up on our dinner plates, well, they’re expensive. And they’re getting more expensive.

And farmers are now left with no real choice about where to get their seeds.

Now, that may sound counterintuitive. After all, don’t seeds come from the crops that farmers grow? You’d think they have better access to seeds than anyone.

But if a farmer were to take the seeds from their own crops and plant them, they could actually be committing a crime.