1.   Many crops are grown from seed every year.

2.   Farmers, in turn, say they cannot afford to buy patented seed each year.

3.   Hybrid seed only produces an optimum crop for one year before losing its vigor, which is why farmers buy new seed each year.

4.   Just as those okra seeds several years back were sure-fire.

5.   Ms. Killough said she would make enough money selling seeds this year to help finance a trip to the Chelsea Flower Show in England.

6.   Seeds saved from commercial hybrids rarely produce plants as productive or vigorous as the parent, so gardeners must buy new hybrid seed each year.

7.   So Hill just plants new seed each year.

8.   Terminator was developed so that seed companies could compel farmers to buy new seed every year.

9.   Farmers also buy new seeds each year for corn and hybrid versions of other crops because they lose their special characteristics after the first generation.

10.   This means that farmers agree to use new seed each year to protect the value of these highly specialized crops for everyone.