Pain Court
September 14, 2007
Pride Seeds has announced
that customers purchasing Pride Seeds corn hybrids this year
that contain value added agronomic traits including YieldGard®
Corn Borer, RoundupReady® Corn 2 and Pride G3 hybrids featuring
YieldGard® VT3 have a new value added opportunity when selling
corn to Greenfield Ethanol in Ontario. The new Gro-Ethanol
program developed between Greenfield Ethanol and Monsanto Canada
provides rewards for committing and delivering Pride seed corn
hybrids with these traits to Canada’s largest ethanol producer.
“Gro-ethanol is a unique program
that raises awareness of the opportunity to sell corn to a
company that has heavily invested in Canadian agriculture,”
notes Stephen Denys, Vice President of Sales and Marketing with
Pride Seeds. “Greenfield Ethanol together with other ethanol
plants being built across Canada and United States have provided
a critical value added market for corn that has lead to improved
commodity prices.” He says as a result, Greenfield ethanol has
become a large user of Ontario grown corn for ethanol.
“Gro-Ethanol provides an opportunity for producers to commit
corn to Greenfield ethanol while benefiting from both the
rewards in this program and the price benefits from selling corn
into an environmentally friendly fuel source that will be used
in all gas powered vehicles in this country.”
Greenfield Ethanol currently
operates three plants in Canada including Chatham, Tiverton and
the recently opened plant located near Montreal. Currently two
additional plants are planned and under construction in
Johnstown and Hensall Ontario.
Benefits under the Gro-Ethanol
program vary by acreage commitment and include Snap-on® tools,
discounts on Roundup WeatherMax®, and with increasing acres a
trip to the Commodity Classic in Dallas Texas in 2009.
Pride Seeds is part of
AgReliant Genetics, one
of the largest corn breeding and testing programs in North
America. Based in Chatham, Ontario, Pride Seeds is performing
everywhere you go through a full range of corn, soybean and
forage varieties designed to meet the needs of producers across
Canada. |
