b"PARTNER CONTENTThe Right Product on the Right Acre is KeyBy: Bryan Boyeff, Operations Manager, Genesis Seed Solutions O ne thing Ive learned from working with wheat in Westcleaners and state-of-the-art optical sorters and improved their Central North Dakota for so many years is that its hugelyquality and consistency, which increased their performance and important for the right product to be grown on the rightoverall yields.acre by the right producer.There are wheat products that I won'tOne of the great things about raising soybeans outside of the give to certain producers because I know from experience thatRed River Valley is the incredible flexibility and diversity of the theyre not going to be as worry-free as those producers wouldwest central part of the state. Our large network of up to 100 pro-want them to be.ducers growing thousands of acres of soybeans means that seed The same is true with soybeans. There are a ton of soybeancompanies dont have all their eggs in one geographic basket. By varieties, each of which perform a little bit differently, and wemoving some of their production to our region, risks related to need to make sure that we know the producers in our networkweather, contamination, disease or other serious issues can be well enough to be able to recommend the varieties that are likelymitigated. to work best on their fields.We also help seed companies manage risk by working in a pro-There have been several instances in the past couple of yearsduction system that guarantees bushels, not acres. That transfers where a grower has brought in a sample of their soybeans, and itsome of the risk onto us. We'll over-produce a product or variety to was obvious to me that it wasnt the best variety for their acres. Itsensure we have the right quantity and quality available to them. rewarding to be able to sit down with that grower and give themIn addition, we have the only soybean production facility in two or three better options. Its even more rewarding to walk theWest Central North Dakota. There isnt another one for 200 to 250 fields with these guys at harvest when its clear that a variety Imiles, which mean we can condition soybeans efficiently and recommended has produced much better for them than the bineconomically, and our in-season logistics are second to none. Its run seed theyd been growing previously.a win-win situation for everyone.For us, it all comes down to quality and consistency. Making sure that producers are growing the best beans for their acres is certainly one part of that equation. Another is conditioning. When producers first started raising North Dakota State Uni-versity soybeans, one thing we noticed right away was that they were getting them cleaned by a portable unit that came onto their farm. The size range was all over the place and, as a result, so were their stands. We put those beans through our high-capacity OCTOBER 2024SEEDWORLD.COM /45"