The Benefits of New Seed
Convenience
- Highest-quality and highest-yielding 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 ensure 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 (approximately $.35 – $.75/bushel)
- Bin-run planting rates are generally 15% higher than new certified seed
- New seed yields an average of 1.8 bushels/acre more than bin-run (university yield trials range from 1.2 – 5.9 bushels/acre)
Limited Warranty Benefits
- Dealer agronomic support before and after the sale
- Risk management benefits of Roundup Rewards® (over $600 million paid to growers since 1997)
New Innovations
- Royalties provide research and development of new traits and higher-yielding germplasm
- Monsanto invests over $800 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
- Latham Hi-Tech Hybrids and Monsanto are committed to our customers’ success
See your dealer for a copy of the 2007 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. Roundup and Roundup Rewards are registered trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC.