Bean growers for simplot offered the same price as last year, but the company announced a higher price for this crop. According to the company’s marketing materials, corn yields will rise to more than 6.4 tons t바카라사이트his year, compared to 6.7 tons last year. However, that’s still below the U.S. average for corn, which is 5.3 tons per acre. The price increase is in part due to more variety than previous years, according t바카라o the company.
In May, Monsanto offered to sell more seeds at a discount on top of current prices, but farmers declined the offer, because a higher price would hurt the company’s bottom line. That decision prompted the company to increase prices in August to maintain market share. The company has been cutting prices with little notice since June, but farmers say it’s too little too late.
Farmers for simplot, which works with 예스카지노farmers in Arkansas’ corn belt to grow small-scale soybeans, wheat and sugarcane, told the Arkansas Times-News that they were able to secure a payment of $8.50 per bushel of beans from Monsanto for 2016. They said they will have to pay $18 per bushel of wheat this year because of higher prices.
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Monsanto also reduced production and planted more seeds, but said these changes were needed to ensure the company was able to compete.
Monsanto is not the only company to face steep price increases this year, with the price of corn, the world’s most important grain crop, going up 15 percent since last year.
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