Soybean Products

Soybean Products

Quality benefit:
Testing standards are met or exceeded for:
• Germination
• Roundup trait purity
• Genetic purity
• Foreign material & splits
• Weed seed
• Other crop seed
• Seed-borne diseases

High performance genetics:
––Up-to-date germplasm
––Improved yields
––Yield trial proven
––Multiple maturities available

Delivery benefits:
––Reliable seed supply as needed
––Packaged in known quantities
––Efficient use of grower’s time

Cost benefits:
––Net difference small
––Commodity value, cleanout, custom cleaning, handling, transportation, higher seeding rates, no treatment, less yield––
VS. New seed cost with benefits

Additional benefits:
––Professionally handled by seedsmen
––Supports research for future genetic improvement
––Supports discovery of new traits
––Limited warranty with Roundup Rewards
––Treatment options available
––New markets created with new traits

Soybean Characteristic Chart

Soybeans Descriptions

Vistive Soybeans

SecureKote™ SB––

For 2007, Trelay will continue to offer SecureKote™ SB. SecureKote SB is formulated specifically for soybeans and includes a seed-applied insecticide and a fungicide, as well as additional components. SecureKote SB gives soybean plants added protection from insects, such as bean leaf beetles and soybean aphids. Improved plant emergence, plant health, better stands, and higher yields result from soybean seed treated with SecureKote SB.
Order Trelay brand soybean seed with SecureKote SB. Determine the amount of seed needed by multiplying the intended planting population by the number of acres planted. Trelay will deliver the exact amount of seed required due to our SoyCount packaging.

Processor Preferred Groups

Trelay brand soybeans designated as Processor Preferred carry characteristics that may have more value for soybean processors. Coupled with high yiled, the superior composition of high protein and higher oil content can result in a higher return when marketing soybeans to end-user processors.

Soycount
Trelay has been selling soybean seed by the count for many years. Take the guess work out of ordering soybean seed by multiplying your acres by planting population. Then order the correct amount of seed. No shortages or extra seed paid for that is not needed.
For 2007, Trelay will sell soybean seed as in 2006, with seed size descriptions designating known packaging seed counts. By example, a bag of "medium large" seed will contain 140,000 seeds.

Seed Sizes for Soybeans

Seed Piracy

Germplasm Patent Notice––

If noted in the Soybean Chart that a patent has been granted or is pending, the noted soybean is or will be patented. Customers are licensed under these patents only to use the seed to grow a single commercial crop of harvested product for use or sale for food, feed, processing, or fiber. No license is granted for further generation of seed or plants for any purpose.

Roundup Ready Trait Patent Notice––

These seeds are protected under one or more of the following U.S. patents Nos: 4,940,835; 5188,642; 5,352,605; 5,530,196; 5,633,435; 5,717,084; 5,728,925; 5,804,425.
The purchase/bailment/transfer of these seeds conveys no license under said patents to use the seeds or perform any of the methods covered by these patents. A license must first be obtained before the seeds can be used in any way. See your seed sales representative to sign a Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement. Progeny of these seeds cannot be cleaned or used as planting seed or transferred to others for planting. The seed may only be offered for sale and distribution by authorized seed companies or their seed sales representatives. Before opening a package of seed, be sure you read, understand and accept the stewardship requirements for the biotechnology traits expressed in the seed as set forth in the Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement that you signed. By opening and using the package of seed, you are reaffirming your obligation to comply with the most recent stewardship.

Pirating of seed is defined as the use or sale of seed outside the legal structures designed to protect inventors of improvements carried in seed. Seed is more than a kernel. Seeds carry genetic and biotech components, which many times are patented. The intent of allowing the patenting of seed was to encourage plant breeders to develop improved varieties and, in the process, get a return for their effort. This is the basis for the patenting process, whether the invention is a new machine, design, or a new process.
Two laws directly control the use of seed in the USA. The Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970––this law has been amended, but is the primary protection for breeders releasing new varieties. A limited farmer exemption for saving seed is part of this law, but has been restricted substantially through amendments.
Seed is also patented under the normal patent laws. These inventions are fully protected with no exceptions. Farmers are not allowed to save seed from crops in which a patent has been issued by the US government. Today, hybrids, biotech traits, and breeding systems are being patented. This is one of the main reasons new inventions, like Bt and herbicide resistance (Roundup Ready) are available today.
At Trelay, our seed tags carry a statement restricting the use of the seed in the bag to growing a crop only. Our delivery receipt outlines more detail on the use of Trelay seed, such as patent numbers for Roundup Ready soybean seed, grower agreement requirements, use of the seed for growing a crop only, and an acknowledgement that failure to comply with the provisions of Trelay’s Delivery Receipt could result in damages.
Seed carries more value than ever before. Protection of that value is a reasonable approach by the owner contributing the value. Agriculture is simply entering into the regular workings of patent protection and invention reward that has been an integral part of establishing the USA as the leader in technological advancement.
Plant new seed to assure compliance with patented seed products.