Patent ID: 8046280

Claim:
A method for reducing risk associated with making a financial decision related to crop production, the method comprising: receiving an identification of a land base for the crop production; receiving a classification of the land base to determine an environmental classification; receiving an indication of a seed product selected for production; evaluating, via a processor, a relative risk associated with the production of different genotypes of comparison seed products, the relative risk being evaluated based on predicted relative performance of a plurality of comparison seed products , each comparison seed product having a genotype, the predicted relative performance being at least partially based on predicted genotype by environment interactions between each seed product and the environmental classification of the land base, and the plurality of comparison seed products including the selected seed product; displaying a relative risk indication based on the relative risk determined in the evaluating step; and determining a financial decision to reduce financial risk at least partially based on the risk associated with the use of the selected seed product relative to one or more other seed products within the plurality of seed products.