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Benefits of New Seed

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

See your dealer for a copy of the Roundup Rewards® brochure for qualification criteria, program requirements and full benefits. Roundup Rewards® applies only to Roundup® branded and other agricultural herbicides specified by Monsanto.
ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW PESTICIDE LABEL DIRECTIONS. Roundup Ready® crops contain genes that confer tolerance to glypohosate, the active ingredient in Roundup agricultural herbicides. Roundup agricultural herbicides will kill plants that are not tolerant to glyphosate. Roundup® and Roundup Ready® are registered trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC. ©2007 Monsanto Company

 
 
 
   
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