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Convenience:
- High quality and high yield potential product vs. bin-run
- Meets quality standards of seed company
- Professionally handled and rigorously tested
- Dramatically reduces splits and foreign matter
- Ensures varietal purity
- Germination tests to help peace of mind
- Weed-free
- Reliable seed supply in many maturities
- Access to the most elite germplasm
Economics of New Seed vs. Bin-Run
- Income lost by not selling as commodity grain (e.g. 1 bushel of bin-run
seed multiplied by the price of a soybean bushel)
- Average loss of ~10–15% cleanout at harvest for bin-run seed
- Handling and transportation costs for bin-run
(approx. $.35–$.75/bushel)
- Bin-run planting rates are generally 15% higher than new certified seed
- New seed yields an average of 1.8 bushel/acre more than bin-run
(university yield trials range from 1.2–5.9 bushel/acre)
Limited Warranty Benefits
- Dealer agronomic support before and after the sale
- Risk management benefi ts of Roundup Rewards® (over $600 million paid to farmers since 1997)
New Innovations
- Royalties provide research and development of new traits and higher
yielding germplasm
- Monsanto invests over $700 million per year on research
and development
- Monsanto is 100% committed to agriculture
- New trait introductions
- 7–9 years for commercialization
- $50–$100 million in total costs for a new biotech trait
- Seed companies and Monsanto are committed to our
customers’ success
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