• Highest quality and highest yielding product vs. bin-run

• Meets quality standards of seed company

• Professionally handled and rigorously tested

• Dramatically reduces splits and foreign matter

• Ensures varietal purity

• Germination tests to ensure peace of mind

• Weed-free

• Reliable seed supply in many maturities

• Access to the most elite germplasm

• Income lost by not selling as commodity grain 

• Average loss of ~ 10-15% cleanout at harvest for bin-run seed

• Handling and transportation costs for bin-run 

• Bin-run planting rates are generally 15% higher than new certified seed

• New seed yields an average of 1.8 bushel/acre more than bin-run 

• Dealer agronomic support before and after the sale

• Risk management benefits of Roundup Rewards® 

• Royalties provide research and development of new traits and higher

  yielding germplasm

• Monsanto invests over $700 million per year on research and development

• Monsanto is 100% committed to agriculture

• New trait introductions

• 7- 9 years for commercialization

• $50-$100 million in total costs for a new biotech trait

• Seed companies and Monsanto are committed to our customers’ success

See your dealer for a copy of the 2007 Roundup Rewards® brochure for qualification criteria, program requirements and full benefits. Roundup Rewards® applies only to Roundup® branded and other agricultural herbicides specified by Monsanto. Roundup® and Roundup Rewards® are registered trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC. © 2007 Monsanto Company