BENEFITS OF PLANTING NEW SOYBEAN SEED
Purchasing new Sucrosco brand soybean seed from APEX Genetics, Inc. is the only way to achieve the yield levels you’ve come to expect with your soybeans. Sucrosco brand soybean seed has gone through extensive quality control and testing procedures insuring that you are getting high quality soybean seed on your farm.
Here are some of the benefits for planting new seed each year:
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 (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
• APEX 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
• APEX Genetics and its trait partner, Monsanto, are committed to our customers’ success
See your APEX Genetics representative 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.
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