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Nate Belcher

πŸ‘€ Speaker
620 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

This is his love, his passion.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

It's what he thinks about on a Sunday and has worked with them intimately.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

So you take that knowledge, you take the foundation of really good parent lines, and then we pick up that sword, if you will, and run from there.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

So, you know, we get a lot of people, you go on ag talk or whatever, they're just peddling old genetics.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

And that is not true.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

Right.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

I mean, again, in some cases, yeah.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

If the farmers in a region, hey, this hybrid was the best we ever had.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

Can you bring this back?

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

And it makes sense.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

Sure, we can do it.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

We will do it if it makes sense.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

I can't tell you the amount of times and I'm sure you guys have experienced this.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

Hey, had a hybrid that dominated for 10 years.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

The next one came out that was supposed to be better.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

It was never better.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

So farmers know there's something to that.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

But short answer, 20 years is what you get.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

Well, so again, that's why I say the base.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

We don't need to know all the little – because like our stuff, we can patent our stuff, right?