Nate Belcher

If it doesn't benefit the farmer, we don't care, but there are certain, certain crosses that that exact cross is,

brought back in the right geography will, I'm not gonna say smoke everything because there's a lot of good genetics out there, but it will run right alongside your $350 corn and we can offer it for, you know, 95 bucks.

No.

And if you spend a million dollars breeding the newest or 20 million breeding, the newest genetic lines, it's a tough pill to swallow to throw that away and be like, well,

20 mil down that, you know, a lot of times those are brought to market because you're so invested, you know, that, you know, I'm not saying they always do that, but there are many times where I'll ask you this.

Would you pay more for a 2015 Chevy than you did in 2015?

Of course not.

Like the only way you're going to pay more is here's the new model.

Here's the new bells and whistles.

Here's the new trade package.

Um,

So it's kind of a long way of saying, yeah, sometimes it does make sense to bring those back.

And a lot of times it makes sense to make some updates to them, make some changes, unique crosses to bring something better.

What were their options?

For a lot of farmers, you're either going with a true independent, which I could argue you could be missing out on performance.

True independence doesn't necessarily mean, and I'm not talking royalties or licensing agreements, but true, hey, we have created these inbreds from the dirt, from scratch.

That doesn't mean they're better.

And what was missing was the option, right?

Being able to purchase from a company that was not tied to agreements, not forcing traits upon them.

You know, we're not against traits, but you guys probably know.