Nate Belcher

Depends on how you do it, but 20 years.

Right.

So that's you get 20 years of true patent protection from the patent office in Washington, D.C.,

And then those go away, right?

So that is why the core of what we do, the base, I should say, the foundation starts there because you can go back and have a 20-year track record and say, what was the best of the best, right?

Out of 100 inbreds, what were 10 that were across the board, everywhere, dominated in acres, right?

What sort of different combinations were they in and how can we make improvements?

And that's really the magic of what we do, right?

We could be, you know, again, you can start from scratch and there are companies that do that.

I don't think that gives you a leg up.

It gives you a good talking point to say we are truly, you know, these are our genetics from, you know, your old Missouri line that we brought up and changed them.

But I don't think you get

Like, how are you going to beat out a company that's invested hundreds of millions of dollars?

Right.

They know what they're doing.

Right.

If you've done some of that research, you know that there is a robust research behind those lines.

But there's also some good improvements that can be made.

And we again, we have a breeder that's a partner in the company.

this is what he does.