Nate Belcher

Just like the big boys, we want to be better every year as long as that is better for the farmer.

If it's not better for the farmer, then we're looking a different direction.

So, Tanner, not to interrupt you.

By trade, do you mean lack of traits?

It is a multifaceted question, and I'll answer it simply.

Could it be a risk in certain environments?

Sure.

If you're 20-year corn-on-corn dairy and you have a hellacious corn rootworm problem, not having below-ground traits might be a little bit risky.

But even in those situations, because we work with those farms, we work with a lot of dairies that are 15-, 20-year corn-on-corn, as long as that is a calculated risk with a plan in place to mitigate that, it's really not that risky.

Now, I would say for the bulk of the farms out there,

how many of them have grown conventional corn in the last 20 years, right?

They wouldn't even know if it was a risk or not because they haven't even entertained the idea.

So, you know, when I was young, right, you drive through, you drive at night in the summertime, your windshield would be covered, you know, nailing moths.

You don't really see that as much anymore.

So sure, if 100% of every acre out there went conventional,

Would we see stuff like European corn borer start coming back in numbers that are maybe, you know, damaging at scale?

Sure.

But we're not there at all yet.

And I think those are things to really address if the whole market shifted that direction.

But I will say this.