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kyplowboy

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I guess 2 year old would be a better term. Yesterday the local CPS store was dumping all the soybeans they had left in the tender truck to take to town. The high $ seed from a month ago they were selling for $10.50/bu now. They had several good numbers left to dump, said they do this every year and that they would sell'm to me for market price if I wanted any. I don't have a good place to keep them this year but would I have much yeild loss by keeping baged seed from one year to the next? I keep what's left out of the planter from one year to the next and never noticed them being too bad but what are yall's thoughts on this? Would keeping seed an extra year hurt much?

Dave
 
I keep my extra seed over sometimes 2 or 3 years. I use a plastic barrel that seals. These were orginally used for food stuff like pie filling. I have actually left the barrels out in the rain and the heat with no problem. However in bags if they get wet and then dry they don't do so good.
The barrels were $30 at a used barrel place.
 
Before Round-up Ready soybeans I saved some for seed and cleaned them. I usually saved enough for two years at a time, so by the second year they were two years old. Every third year I would buy new certified seed. I usually increased my planting rates about 10% but never noticed any yield reduction. Considering the reduction in seed cost I would go for it.
Paul
 
Most times it grows OK.

I have also seen times when hardly a seed grows.

I would not chance a large amount.

If it doesn't grow good luck trying to get any guarantee on replant seed. You would be paying the whole replant cost out of your own pocket.

Gary
 
That's what I was thinking for next year. I can get all the barrels I want here at work but most all of them have been turned into minneral and calf feeders the last few years. (That'll teach my boss to fuss about the cost of have'n them hauled off and recycled). While I would have to be on the watch for the good sealed ones I could get enough to store a years worth of beans. Hard to belive they haul them off like that.

Dave
 
One reason they dump them off like that is because beans do loose there germ over the year and the cost to store and re-bag is greater than just selling on the open market.

Law allows them to sell seed that is 90% or better germ. If it falls to 85% as most does, they cannot sell it but you would not notice the difference between 85% and 95% in the field after planting.

Corn will hold it's germ a little better so they do re-bag it some. Most of the year old corn gets dumped as well. Because of the treatment of the seed on corn they have to dispose of it properly.

You may want to store the seed in a container that breathes a little. A sealed container will condensate with the temperature changes. Moisture would be bad for germanation.

Gary
 
One other thing to consider.

If you don't pay the per acre tech fee on those RR beans you open yourself up to lawsuits from Monsanto.

Buying for market price and planting does not pay the tech fees. Same as planting right out of the bin.

I know, I know I don't agree with those tech fees either. There has been a few guys fined here in Iowa. Cost one guy over $10,000 to Monsanto but he did it on a big scale.

Food for thought.

Gary
 
Does the patent ever expire on the RR gene or does Monsanto get tech fees forever. RR beans have been around at least ten years.
 
Dont do it. One of your nieghbors will open his mouth and pretty soon you will have monsanto all over you.Or buy them cheap call monsanto and pay them their tech fee and all will be good.
 
I think they can sell it under 90%. I know around here Becks and Dekalb and some in the 70% range last year. Not sure what the stipulations are on germ rates.
 
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