Michigan Soybeans Must be Destroyed Due to Soil

Michigan regulators say 91,000 bushels of soybeans must be destroyed, three years after a small portion was grown on land that had sediment from a Kalamazoo River Superfund site in western Michigan, reportsWILX.

Only 145 bushels were harvested from the land. But those soybeans were stored with thousands of additional bushels likely worth more than $800,000 at the time. The agriculture department says the soybeans are indistinguishable and can't be sorted.

The spoiled crop was grown by Golden Grain Farms and sold to CHS, a Minnesota-based farm cooperative with Michigan operations.

CHS recently filed a lawsuit against Golden Grain, seeking compensation for all 91,000 bushels.