date:Jun 05, 2013
Farmer Ernest Barnes, who grows wheat in Morton County in the southwest corner of Kansas, filed suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kansas, alleging that he and other wheat farmers have been hurt financially by the discovery of the unapproved biotech wheat that Monsanto said it stopped testing and shelved nine years ago.
Monsanto has released GE (genetically engineered) wheat into the non-genetically modified wheat population, the petition states.
The plaintiff has been harmed by an