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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

So started conventional.

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

We've been doing non-GMO conventional since then.

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

We just recently launched a glyphosate tolerant brand, Override Ag.

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

which is just single trait glyphosate tolerant.

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

Many of the genetics, you know, the base genetics crossover, just one being non-GMO, one being glyphosate tolerant.

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

And from there, the rest is kind of history.

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

I mean, we've grown at a pretty astounding rate, if you will, because farmers were looking for something different.

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

And of course the meat of our product, if you will, is our breeder.

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

He was in the industry, you know,

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

Bred for Monsanto for 20 plus years, other companies prior to that.

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

So it was, you know, we kind of joke, we call him a corn savant, kind of even if he didn't get paid to do this, he would do it anyway because it's what he does.

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

And ever since then, just been growing and trying to bring better hybrids to market every year.

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

Oh, a hundred percent.

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

So I would say this, you know, we get this question a lot.

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

Like, is it just off patent?

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

Is it just old hybrids?

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

What we start with is off patent genetics.

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

The reason for that is, you know, the best breeding programs in the world are very small.

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

Most of those genetics trickle down from there.

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

Our breeder knows those backgrounds like the back of his hand, working in the industry for, you know, 25 plus years.