Survey: Many Chicagoans see seed source signs as indication of corporate ownership

VAIL, Colo. — Those seed company signs that proudly proclaim the source of seed for the crops growing on farmers’ fields make urban Americans think that the farm is owned by a seed corporation and may be damaging the image of family farming, an Illinois Farm Bureau survey of Chicagoans has found.

By: Jerry Hagstrom, Special to Agweek