The South America operation produced more than 500,000 bags of seed in winter production between Roundup Ready and Bt Corn. Sales have been strong. The market acceptance has been outstanding for this new technology. In their quest to identify all management opportunities to increase productivity, growers have adopted new technologies very quickly.
Technology only has value if it brings growers an increase in product performance and profit.
Bt traits, produced more than an eight percent increase in yield per acre verses the non-Bt counterpart. Roundup Ready and Bt Corn provide growers with new management tools they've needed and wanted to bring increased value to their crop production acres. We will continue to give corn growers hybrids that will increase their profitability. This investment in technology has resulted in being first to market with an exciting new specific trait product, Roundup Ready Corn. They too have seen the same value of this new technology.