Iowa Court Says Seed Supplier Can’t Collect against Landowner Where Custom Farmer was the Customer

  On August 15, the Iowa Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s motion for summary judgment, finding that the lack of writing in a contract dispute prevented the introduction of evidence of an agreement. This case highlights the need for written contracts over oral agreements. Background The plaintiff in this case is a business that sells seeds and chemicals to farmers and applies them them to farmland. The defendant is a land owner who had entered into an agreement with a third-party farmer to “custom farm” the land defendant owned. That third-party farmer bought seed and chemical supplies through the plaintiff. The third-party farmer also arranged for the plaintiff to spray the soybean crop. In this case, the plaintiff claimed that he had entered an oral contract with the defendant landowner for the crop inputs. He claimed that the defendant landowner had orally told the plaintiff to send him an invoice for crop inputs and for the spraying…

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