(February 14, 2001 -- Cropchoice) --

                   Dear Cropchoice:

                   I have been offered $1.25 a bushel over market for 100% pure non-GMO
                   soybeans of certain varieties that happen to be popular varieties in my
                   area.

                   This contract is being offered through a local grain elevator near Fargo,
                   ND. I thought it sounded too good to be true. I immediately went to work
                   to try and purchase at least 1 of these varieties. I then learned the
                   disappointing news. Not 1 of the seed companies could guarantee
                   non-GMO purity. In fact, one of the seed dealers actually laughed at me
                   when I told him I needed the seed to be certified as 100% pure non-GMO.
                   He told that would be impossible and that he didn't think any seed
                   company selling soybean seed today would attempt or be able to make
                   such a guarantee. The buyer offering the contract later told me he
                   realizes this problem. He was simply stating that this market offering the
                   premium was an Asian market and that was the price that he could offer
                   me if I could supply the non-GMO crop.

                   Up here in North Dakota, we have essentially only been growing GMO
                   soybeans commercially for 2 years and already it appears nearly all
                   varieties are too contaminated for some markets. As if things weren't bad
                   enough in farming today, now we have this mess--limited markets and
                   government bailouts to farmers.

                   All this so the big biotech seed companies can continue to develop and
                   sell more seeds that are resistant to their own chemicals. In my opinion,
                   paying 5 times as much for soybean seed as compared to binrun (saved)
                   seed, then raising a crop that yields less than non-GMO varieties and
                   then finally selling that crop at a discount at the elevator on top of having
                   the whole market depressed due to the GMO issue doesn't pencil out
                   very good on my farm.

                   I would think that the taxpayers in this country would not stand for this
                   much longer.

                   Sincerely,
                   Rodney Nelson
                   Amenia, ND.