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Nate Belcher

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620 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

So we'll start there.

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

And then, you know, make step changes, make advancements.

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

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.

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

You know, we don't bring a parent line into our lineup unless it's a proven performer.

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

We call them million acre marks.

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

You know, if we've got some parent lines that have been on acres and hybrids over a million acres,

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

there's something there, right?

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

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.

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

So it's a combo.

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

There are some cases where we can, an older, not older, a proven hybrid from years past,

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

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.

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

And then other times we've got to make some advancements to where maybe it's lacking something.

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

Maybe it's gray leaf spot, maybe it's tar spot, and you can make some step changes to improve those.

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

So it's a combo.

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

So we're not just going and buying genetics, re-bagging them, putting them on the market.

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

I mean, we're doing...

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

active breeding, nurseries, testing.

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

Yeah.

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

If it makes sense.

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

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.