Tanner Winterhof

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It would, but we'd also invite resistance to whatever diseases and all that stuff.

So you have to have diversity.

I plant conventional, have for seven or eight years.

I rotate it around.

It's not all of my acres, but I just do it to lower my seed costs.

And it usually is some of our better plants.

performing hybrids that we have on the farm um i got the benefit of being in research on the pioneer corteva side and we looked at a lot of different traits in every hybrid and most of the time not all as long as there wasn't a pressure from rootworm or corn borer or whatever less traits the better now i will say when you got to one of those pockets

that trait was worth its weight in gold because it was a, it was a fantastic hedge against that.

So I get why people do that, but I want to, I want to lay out what the risk is, what you're saving.

So at $85 a bag, I'm, I'm using the factor of 2.3 bags or let's say 2.3 acres out of one 80,000 kernel bag over a, let's just call a regular conventional hybrid from a big company, $200.

11.4 bushel is the gap that you could give up to, 11.4 bushel to be at the same, to go down to 85.

Now to go up to a $300 bag, 21.23 bushel difference.

So if you gave up 15 bushel in advantage...

to that, you'd still be out money ahead.

That also costs, it does cost you to, uh, higher chemistry prices and all that.

And then, and then the risk of if you're not spraying it yourself and you're hiring a co-op, like, Hey, don't spray that with Roundup because you're going to kill it.

And then all of a sudden the new guy goes, Oh crap.

You know, it's dead, you know?

So there is risk.