1. Corn Basics
Corn is a cross-pollinated crop
Tassel is the male part
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Ear is the female part
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The corn planted by farmers is a hybrid
Made up by ‘crossing’ two unique inbreds
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The development of new inbreds takes 6-7 breeding
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cycles
Traditionally, the entire process of creating
new inbreds has taken up to 7 years
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2. Hybrid Testing - Corn
Number
Tested Stages Year
Each year, 15−25 new- Tens of
based genetics will Thousands Screening 1
make the grade for Thousands Advanced Testing 2
small-scale
commercial testing Hundreds Mini-FACT* Plots 3
These new products 100 FACT Testing (full-size
Strips)
are quot;base geneticsquot; 4
and do not include 15 Small-Scale Commercial
Use
specific trait versions 5
(for selected growers)
15 Large Scale Product 6
Availability
2 *Field Analysis Comparison Trials

3. Corn Germplasm Performance
MON 2005 Yield vs. Competitors
Corn Yield (Bushels/Acre)
210
Monsanto
Competitors
200
190
180
170
160
150
95 100 105 110 115
Relative Maturity (Days)
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4. ™
YieldMaker Advanced Genetics
® ®
from DEKALB and Asgrow
YieldMaker Advantage
YieldMaker™ Corn
Products for 2007 In 25,375 comparisons with
leading competitive
High-yielding corn built on
• products, YieldMaker
outstanding genetics that corn products:
benefit your bottom line
yielded 9.3 bushels more
–
30 new single and stacked per acre
•
trait DEKALB® and Asgrow®
were 0.5 points drier at
–
corn products harvest
offered $21.42 more per
–
acre
Corn at $1.90/bu and moisture discount of $.04/point/bu to 15%
moisture.
YieldMaker is trademark of Monsanto Technology LLC. Dekalb is a registered trademark of Dekalb Genetics Corporation. All other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners. © 2006 Monsanto Company
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