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class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/your_area.php"><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-no-proof:yes'><img border=0 width=108 height=23 id="_x0000_i1028" src="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/images/main_nav/main_nav_r1_c10.jpg" alt="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/images/main_nav/main_nav_r1_c10.jpg"></span></a><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/request_info.php"><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-no-proof:yes'><img border=0 width=111 height=23 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/images/main_nav/main_nav_r1_c12.jpg" alt="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/images/main_nav/main_nav_r1_c12.jpg"></span></a><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof:yes'><img border=0 width=1 height=23 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/images/main_nav/main_nav_r1_c14.jpg" alt="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/images/main_nav/main_nav_r1_c14.jpg"></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof:yes'><img border=0 width=1 height=23 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/images/main_nav/spacer.gif" alt="http://www.fielderschoicedirect.com/images/main_nav/spacer.gif"></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:3;height:4.5pt'> <td colspan=3 style='background:#BF311A;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 4.5pt'></td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:4;height:102.0pt'> <td colspan=3 valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:102.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Product Performance Review<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Dr. Dick Bohling, CCA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>David Haines, CCA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Correctly interpreting harvest results is an important component of hybrid and variety evaluations. Selecting products that minimize risks and provide the greatest opportunities for increased profitability should be a goal of<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>all producers. In this article we want to discuss a few of</span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_28" o:spid="_x0000_s1044" type="#_x0000_t75" style='position:absolute;margin-left:220.25pt;margin-top:0;width:260.25pt; height:183pt;z-index:1;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:margin; mso-position-vertical:top;mso-position-vertical-relative:margin'> <v:imagedata src="Product_Performance_Review_files/image002.emz" o:title=""/> <w:wrap type="square" anchorx="margin" anchory="margin"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=347 height=244 src="Product_Performance_Review_files/image001.gif" align=right hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_28"><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>the management variables that affect performance and<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>why they should be considered in your performance review.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Product Maturity:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>As you know, fuller season hybrids and varieties are<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> expected to yield more than earlier maturing products.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>You certainly don t plant them for the extra moisture they carry. You plant them for the extra yield they generally provide. As a rule of thumb, you should gain from 1 to 1.5 bushels per acre for each day difference in maturity within the adapted maturity range for your area. For example, a hybrid 10 days later in maturity should yield from 10 to 15 bushel per acre more than an earlier maturing hybrid. No, this doesn t happen all the time. In fact, early maturing hybrids out-yielded later maturing hybrids in many areas in 2007. This is the reason you should plant a range of maturities, to minimize risks associated with planting one maturity group only.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_9" o:spid="_x0000_s1043" type="#_x0000_t75" style='position:absolute; margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:274.5pt;height:182.25pt;z-index:2; visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:margin;mso-position-vertical:center; mso-position-vertical-relative:margin'> <v:imagedata src="Product_Performance_Review_files/image007.emz" o:title=""/> <w:wrap type="square" anchorx="margin" anchory="margin"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=366 height=243 src="Product_Performance_Review_files/image003.gif" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_9"><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>As you review performance information this fall and winter, keep this yield to moisture relationship in mind. Graph yield versus maturity for the products you raised and determine how closely the relationship holds from early to late maturity (see example).</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Although the slope of the line may differ from expected (1 to 1.5 bushel per acre per day difference in maturity), depending on your area of the country, it should be fairly close. In the example, hybrids A, D and F performed as expected.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Their performance was close to the trend line established from all data.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Hybrid B performed well above average.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>It produced more bushels of grain than was expected based on its maturity.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Hybrids C and E fell below expectation.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>In your selection process, keep those hybrids that fall above the line (higher yield than expected for their maturity) and consider replacing those hybrids that fall significantly below the line (lower yield than expected for their maturity). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Another technique is to calculate the yield-to-moisture ratio for each hybrid. Simply divide the hybrid s yield by the hybrid s moisture content. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=277 style='width:207.6pt;margin-left:197.25pt;border-collapse:collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;height:15.0pt'> <td width=277 colspan=4 valign=bottom style='width:207.6pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>Yield to Moisture Relationship<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1;height:15.0pt'> <td width=77 valign=bottom style='width:57.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> <td width=59 valign=bottom style='width:44.45pt;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width=74 valign=bottom style='width:55.7pt;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width=66 valign=bottom style='width:49.5pt;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2;height:15.0pt'> <td width=77 valign=bottom style='width:57.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>Hybrid<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> </td> <td width=59 valign=bottom style='width:44.45pt;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>Yield<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> </td> <td width=74 valign=bottom style='width:55.7pt;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>Moist.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> </td> <td width=66 valign=bottom style='width:49.5pt;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>Y/M<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:3;height:15.0pt'> <td width=77 valign=bottom style='width:57.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>Hybrid A<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width=59 valign=bottom style='width:44.45pt;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>145<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width=74 valign=bottom style='width:55.7pt;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>19.8<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width=66 valign=bottom style='width:49.5pt;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>7.3<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td>