Nate Belcher
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I mean, if you farm, there's a lot of times guys will go, hey, I love that genetic package.
Can I get it in just Roundup or conventional?
And you can't, right?
You're forced into a trait package.
And by that, you're forced into a price point that is expensive, right?
Hybrid 85 is that was our original, right?
We started 85 bucks.
Um,
You know, and you look in hindsight, it's like, should we have named it hybrid 85?
Now it's like hybrid 105, hybrid 110.
But that was our kind of our pitch at, hey, we can bring good genetics to market for 85 bucks.
Now, as we evolve, as our breeding programs evolve, you know, inbreds are goofy plants, right?
There's a reason people don't inbreed.
You get some goofiness to them in corn breeding.
That's where you get that hybrid vigor.
But sometimes our cost of goods is different, right?
You can have inbreds don't, you know, parent.
They don't yield like a hybrid does, obviously, or we would grow inbreds open pollinated.
Sometimes you can have an inbred that make 35 bushel.
Sometimes they can make 80 bushel.