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Martinsville, Ohio | Heard RR is going up again this year while South America's royalty goes down.
From Grainnet.com
Monsanto Cuts Roundup® Seed Royalties in Brazil
SAO PAULO (September 29, 2006/MarketWatch) -- Monsanto Co. (MON) will cut royalty payments for its Roundup Ready transgenic soybeans in the 2006-07 season in response to an ongoing liquidity crisis on Brazil soy and grain farms, the company said Friday.
Farmers must pay royalties of 0.30 Brazilian reals (0.13 cents) per kilogram ($3.13 per 50 lb. unit of seed) compared to BRL0.50 per kilogram ($5.22 per 50 ln. unit of seed) in the 2005-06 crop season, Monsanto said.
Seed companies have lowered prices overall for the new planting season in response to low demand from soy and corn farmers. Transgenic soy seed costs have fallen 36% to BRL0.80 per kilogram ($8.34 pr 50 lb. unit), according to the Brazilian Seed Association.
I am sure someone can tell you the tech fee increase in America.
The early problem with RR seed was yield drag where the GMO caused the variety to yield less and yield lag where the new materials could not get into farmers fields as fast as the non GMO seed.
It looks like that has pretty much been reduced and now most of the good varieties are GMO and you get yield lag if you don't plant them, let alone the weed control!
The weed control has become an issue in both as we have ALS and glyphosate resistant marestail, lambsquarter, Giant Ragweed and now common ragweed in Clinton and Brown Counties according to Jeff Stachler, Ohio State weed specialist. He had a good talk and display at Farm Science Review. Also Pokeweed is hard to kill, Poison Hemlock is hard to kill, saw more Canadian thistle in some spots this year. Velvetleaf escaped several programs but that is probably a timing issue and a matter of penetrating that very hairy weed. Redroot Pigweed acted like some of the Tall Waterhemp cousins I see in Iowa, more of a timing issue but working on resistance.
Hope this gives you some information for your project.
Ed Winkle | |
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