I've worked at the Co-op all the way through college, never sell bad seed. We sell that years current seed and if we had seed from last year( usually just a couple of bags) we always let the customer know that the seed is out of date. Which I've had 3 year old seed come up before. An back to the outdated seed, usually customers ask if we have outdated seed and if we do we sell it way under cost. Sounds like someone let their seed burn up or plant to deep one!!