When we look at the major differences between crosses made off of our inbreds, and those of traditional genetic sources, fiber digestibility is the best place to start. We’re seeing hybrids coming out of these inbreds with fiber numbers as good or better than BMR levels. That gets your farms elite level fiber, without the yield and agronomic shortcomings (and expense) of BMR.

Building the most ideal products for livestock operations also includes bringing softer starch to the hybrids our crosses make. The industry is pushing high test weight, hard endosperm genetics. If you’re exporting your corn this is great. For the 40% of American corn that is fed to livestock, it is less great. Hard endo corn won’t help nutritional values.

If you needed more proof that we are moving in a direction contrary to the industry, our goal is to provide flex genetics, planted at lower populations than the ever increasing industry norms. Hybrids planted at lower populations are better nutritionally, we’ve seen this played out over and over again. We look to select our inbreds to make flexy, girthy plants that will yield.