remington is a contract producer. brand "a" is in need of x number of units of seed. they go to remington and they find the number of acres it takes to produce it for them. they supply remington the seed to sell to me and in turn i sell the production back to them. remington conditions the seed and sells it back to the original owner or sells it to someone else with a portion of the sale going back to the original own. clear as mud right?
sometimes every bushel gets taken, sometime half of it. sometimes none of it. one year i had 40 acres of a variety. every last seed of that variety was on my farm, at least that remington had. it was fabulous. tall lush plants with great color. the seeds were perfect. the yield was outstanding. we thought it was a slam dunk and they would take every bushel and i was going to plant more of it the next year. the parent company never gave it a second look. it sat in a bin all winter. and it got flushed down the pit at the elevator as commercial production, never to be seen again.
