Advanced Genetics Inc.
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 % clean out 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 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 $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 2007 Roundup Rewards for Qualification criteria, program requirements and full benefits.
Rewards applies to Roundup* branded and other herbicides specified by Monsanto.  Roundup Rewards* are registered
trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC.