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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. $0.35–$0.75/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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