Alexander, Iowa
July 27, 2009

Latham Hi-Tech Seeds today announces the addition of four new corn hybrids, featuring agriculture's most advanced all-in-one corn trait platform, in its 2010 corn hybrid lineup. Genuity™ SmartStax™ combines industry-leading corn traits to provide farmers with the broadest spectrum of above- and below-ground protection available against insects and weeds versus any product in the market today.

"We're very excited to offer four new Genuity SmartStax hybrids with relative maturities ranging from 102 to 110 days. These same genetic packages have been proven to work in our marketing area, so we're expecting even better results now that they're available with the SmartStax trait platform," said John Latham, president of Latham Hi-Tech Seeds. "This technology is the most advanced technology on the market. With eight traits, SmartStax will provide higher yield potential due to improved pest protection and reduced refuge requirements."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reduced refuge requirements from 20 percent to only 5 percent for SmartStax hybrids grown in the U.S. Corn Belt due to the unique combination of insect control traits in SmartStax. SmartStax combines the industry's leading above- and below-ground insect protection and herbicide- tolerant traits for the most yield protection available to farmers:

• Above-ground insect control for protection against corn earworm, European corn borer, southwestern corn borer, sugar cane borer, fall armyworm, western bean cutworm and black cutworm: with Dow AgroSciences' HERCULEX® I Insect Protection technology and Monsanto's VT PRO™, a second-generation, two-gene lepidopteran control product contained in Genuity™ Triple PRO™. 
• Below-ground insect control for protection against Western, Northern and Mexican corn rootworms: integrating Monsanto's YieldGard VT Rootworm/RR2 technology with Dow AgroSciences' HERCULEX® RW Insect Protection technology.
• Broad spectrum weed and grass control bringing together Monsanto's Roundup Ready® 2 technology with Bayer CropScience's Liberty Link® herbicide tolerance.

"Our customers like to be on the cutting edge of new technology, and it doesn't get any bigger than SmartStax," said Latham.

Latham Hi-Tech Seeds is an independent seed company committed to bringing world-class technology home™ to rural communities in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota. It is owned by third-generation seedsman John Latham and his wife, Shannon, and John's brother, Chris Latham. For more than 60 years, the Latham name has stood for the latest genetics and highest quality.

Latham® and "bringing world-class technology home" are trademarks of Latham Hi-Tech Hybrids, Inc. SmartStax™ multi-event technology developed by Dow AgroSciences and Monsanto. SmartStax, the SmartStax Logo, Genuity, YieldGard VT PRO, YieldGard VT Rootworm/RR2, VT Triple PRO and Roundup Ready are trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC.

®HERCULEX is a registered trademark of Dow AgroSciences LLC
®Liberty Link is a registered trademark of Bayer CropScience.

Website: http://www.lathamseeds.com

Published: July 27, 2009