vickruse - 11/18/2017 10:26


So if you paid $80/unit less for the conventional and took a 10 bu/acre hit you broke even if you planted 32000 pop. 80 bucks divided by 2.5 is $32/acre extra seed cost with corn at $3.09 as it is here that is $30.90/acre diff. on 10 more bu/acre with the SS
Now lets take a Smartstax from a small company with Monsanto genetics that costs $30/unit less then your DeKalb but yielded exactly the same. Cost savings is $12/acre or on 1000 acres $12000.
Simple math but Pioneer and Dekalb koolaid tastes good for many. Seed corn genetics is very limited. We are all planting closely related, if not the same, seed corn. How the seed is grown and handled makes a bigger difference, i.e. quality control. Take a look at your favorite Pioneer or DeKalb number, 1197, 62-34 in FIRST trials some good, some not. Then look at the summary reports.