One bushel of RR Soybeans = 60 lbs
One bag of RR SBs=50 lbs
One bushel of RR Soybeans = $6.50 average
One bag of RR SBs =$15.00 (seed cleaning, handling etc) plus $ 16.00 tech fee Issued by Monsanto.
Plant population is generally 1.25-2 bags per acre. 1.25(38.75/acre) to 2(62.00/acre)
***If you must replant***
This tech fee must be paid again if you do not use Monsanto licensed herbicide on burndown application.
You can't tell me this isn't robbery. Year after year. Before these days you could save seed from the previous crop. You could plant 120lbs to the acre(too much) and cost per acre is only 12.00.
By the way, If you save roundup seed and plant it, you will be sued and have your farm taken away.
I hear the research excuse for the high costs of the tech fee.The research costs have long been absorbed with the billions of dollars of corn, soybeans, canola sold worldwide.
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