Burrell is among a group of a few black farmers in Mississippi suing Iowa-based Stine Seed Co. for allegedly selling them "inferior" soybean seeds, which they claim is part of a wider conspiracy ...

Now, a smaller challenger, Stine Seed, wants to disrupt that practice. Next year, family-owned Stine says it will give about 200 farmers in a pilot program the chance to replant genetically ...

On Different Paths Along with Bayer, Corteva AgriScience and Iowa-based Stine Seed Company are working in the shorter corn arena, but the companies have taken different paths to developing the ...

Leaders of the Memphis-based Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association have filed a class-action lawsuit against Stine Seed Co., the nation's largest independent seed-producer, accusing the ...

Now president of Stine Seed Company, Myron Stine has worked in the family-owned business as a district sales manager, regional sales manager, sales director, and vice president of sales and marketing.

On one of the windiest days in recent memory Harry Stine, the richest man in Iowa, cranes his neck to examine the elevator shaft inside the 110-foot steel observation tower next to his garage.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal: Filed in April 2018, the group's lawsuit alleges fraud and discrimination involving soybean seeds a Stine representative sold the farmers. After meeting the ...

THESE PEOPLE ARE GETTING SEED READY TO SEND AWAY TO OUR WINTER NURSERY. TODD: AND BOSS HARRY STINE IS WATCHING OVER THE ENTIRE PROCESS. AFTER THEY GROW INTO PLANTS, NEW SEEDS WILL BE HARVESTED AND ...

But as the plants began to grow, Hall, Grayer and other black farmers who bought certified seeds from Stine Seed salesman Kevin Cooper in 2017 noticed that they were shorter and less uniform than ...

A lawsuit filed by African-American farmers from Tennessee and Mississippi accuses Stine Seed Co. of selling them seeds they were told were of good quality and would bring successful harvests.