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Benefits Of New Seed |
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Convenience |
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Highest quality and highest yielding product vs. bin run. |
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Meets quality standards
from seed company |
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Professionally handled and rigorously tested |
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Dramatically reduces splits and foreign matter |
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Ensures varietal purity |
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Germination tests to ensure peace of mind |
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Weed-free |
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Reliable seed supply in
many maturities |
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Access to the most elite
germplasm |
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Limited Warranty Benefits |
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Dealer agronomic support
before and after the sale |
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Risk management benefits
of Roundup Rewards® (over $600 million paid to growers since 1997) |
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No need to
increase planting rates by 15% |
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Economics Of New Seed
vs. Bin-Run |
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Income lost by not selling as commodity grain (e.g. 1 bushel of
bin-run seed multiplied by the price of a soybean bushel) |
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Average loss of ~ 10-15% clean out at harvest for bin-run seed |
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Handling and transportation costs for bin-run (approx.
$.350$.75/bushel) |
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Bin-run planting rates are generally 15%higher than new certified
seed |
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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) |
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New Innovations |
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Royalties provide research and development of new traits and higher
yielding germplasm |
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Monsanto invests over $700 million per year on research and
development |
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Monsanto is 100%
committed to agriculture |
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New trait introductions |
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7-9 years for
commercialization |
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$50-$100 million in total costs for a new biotech trait |
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Seed companies and Monsanto are committed to our customers’ success |
