NutriDense^®

Growing Profits

Whether you’re selling corn as a cash crop or it’s leaving your operation in the form of milk or meat, NutriDense^® can help you increase profits. Improved feed efficiency and decreased cost of gain promise maximum production from each pound of feed, while contract premiums ensure increased revenue per acre. With products containing NutriDense^®, you can improve profit per acre and balance rations for greater profitability.

NutriDense^® is a nutritionally enhanced corn that contains a stacked set of output traits designed to enhance animal feed performance. NutriDense^® offers increased essential amino acids, elevated energy levels, and improved phosphorus availability to enhance bottom-line performance. NutriDense^® is a non-GMO, but some products are available with many popular GMO-input traits to maximize marketing potential and nutritional density.

Convenient Contracting

NutriDense^® premium contracts are available to help you lock in a profit versus conventional yellow dent corn. BASF Plant Science and NutriDense^® are working with E-MarketsSM, Inc. to bring you a convenient website where sample contracts for the sale of NutriDense^® grain will be available to preview. Ask your local Select representative for more details or you can also visit www.nutridensecontract.com to see the NutriDense^® contracts available in your area.

Improved Profit for Swine Producers

NutriDense^®, the premium livestock and poultry corn, can reduce feed costs and increase feed efficiency. The numbers add up to increased profits.

• Efficient gain saves pork producers up to $4 per marketed hog.
• 20 percent more lysine than conventional corn coupled with other essential amino acid increases.
• Elevated oil content improves energy density and palatability while enhancing processing efficiencies.
• NutriDense^® contains 71 percent more available phosphorus than commodity corn, reducing the need to supplement phosphorus.
• A number of major universities, private research firms and on-farm demonstrations with over 4,000 pigs have confirmed the feeding benefits of NutriDense^®.

Please contact your Regional Service and Product Manager for availability of NutriDense^® products for 2010.

Brantt Huston, Matthews Feed & Grain, Matthews, Indiana In terms of performance, I think the NutriDense® technology is what we are looking for. I think we’ve bred nutrition out of corn to increase yield, but NutriDense® traits offer a full package of yield and nutrition. It’s higher in amino acids, fat, protein and overall digestibility. If I was feeding hogs right now, I’d be feeding corn from hybrids that carry NutriDense® traits to get the added benefit of lower costs and improved nutrition. Manager, Matthews Feed & Grain In 2009, the mill purchased 8,000 acres of hybrid grains that carry NutriDense traits

Jeff Stephens, Arrowhead Farms, Matthews, Indiana In 2009, over 50 % of the corn grown at my operation will carry the NutriDense® set of traits. When compared to other specialty grains, it’s easy to grow and the segregation process is easy. I also appreciate that I get a lot of great nutritional value from growing and feeding hybrids that carry the NutriDense®traits. Hybrids that carry NutriDense® traits are a perfect fit for my operation. The benefits are threefold. The premium to the grower is number one. It creates a demand for the local elevator’s product because it’s superior and it’s being demanded by the end user: hog owners. They see value, even at the cost of the premium. So it’s all being driven by the end user. Jeff has been growing corn hybrids that carry NutriDense® traits for four years.

Please contact your Regional Service and Product Manager for availability of NutriDense^® products for 2009.