Nate Belcher
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So we'll start there.
And then, you know, make step changes, make advancements.
We've got nurseries in Florida that, you know, so we can do year round winter nurseries to not only to, let's say, take some lines that are proven performers.
You know, we don't bring a parent line into our lineup unless it's a proven performer.
We call them million acre marks.
You know, if we've got some parent lines that have been on acres and hybrids over a million acres,
there's something there, right?
So there's some proven past performance, but many times you can make some advances in those, take maybe some limiting factors of certain parent lines, improve them, and then we'll bring those to market.
So it's a combo.
There are some cases where we can, an older, not older, a proven hybrid from years past,
that is just unbeatable in certain geographies, sometimes it makes sense to bring those back because you put it in its right geography and it will run right alongside whatever you want to put it against.
And then other times we've got to make some advancements to where maybe it's lacking something.
Maybe it's gray leaf spot, maybe it's tar spot, and you can make some step changes to improve those.
So it's a combo.
So we're not just going and buying genetics, re-bagging them, putting them on the market.
I mean, we're doing...
active breeding, nurseries, testing.
Yeah.
If it makes sense.
So like, you know, I'm, I don't want to over talk it if you will, but if you're, our goal is to bring genetics to market that benefit the farmer.