To subscribe to Agweek, click here. Agway Inc. The farmers claimed they bought faulty confection sunflower seed from Agway Inc. in 1999. The Agway dispute is the largest case to come before the state arbitration board. The board makes nonbinding recommendations to the parties in a dispute.
Board action is required before a seed dispute can go to court in North Dakota.
The groups represent growers in the Leeds and Fairdale areas in North Dakota, and a more general eastern group in the state. Consequential damages include such things as future higher insurance costs because of a year of poor production, and for lower potential government disaster payments, which are sometimes based on insurance payments. We feel very, very good about the recommendation. Vogel says Agway officials were at the meeting but said nothing. Similar cases Jeff Knudson, state seed arbitration board chairman, says the board still is studying Vogel's request to develop an expedited process for handling new farmers with similar cases against Agway.