Attachment III- Specifications.pdf

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Hybrid Seed Corn and Soybean Variety Federal contract opportunity
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12653820Q0012
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Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service

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Solicitation #12653820Q0012 Attachment III

Technical Specifications

****All hybrids or varieties quoted must be currently offered and described in your 2020 seed guide.****

****GMO Events not approved for export that are quoted will not be excepted.****

****Test plot data must be submitted on all seed/varieties quoted.****

Soybeans: All Soybean Varieties submitted for consideration must meet the following characteristics/technical specifications. Documentation demonstrating the product offered meets these requirements must be submitted with your quote:

- Yield potential: Above average yield potential in locality requested (100-mile radius of Clay Center, NE) supported with test plot data. If the variety quoted has been used at USMARC in previous years, the yield data recorded by USMARC Farm Operations will be included in its evaluation to determine its compliance with technical requirements.

- Medium bush plant structure with good to excellent standability.

- Good to Excellent ratings for Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS)

- Soybean Cyst Nematode (SCN) resistance

- Good to Excellent ratings for phytophthora

- Good to Excellent shattering resistance

- Pre inoculated & treated seed, both fungicide and insecticide

Corn: All seed corn submitted for consideration must meet the following characteristics/technical specifications. Documentation demonstrating the product offered meets these requirements must be submitted with your quote:

- Recommended grain harvest moisture content should be included for all hybrids.

Moisture content for grain fields can be no higher than 18%.

- Yield potential: Above average yield potential within requested locality (100-mile radius of Clay Center, NE) supported with test plot data. If the seed corn hybrid quoted has been used at USMARC in previous years, the yield data recorded by USMARC Farm Operations will be included in its evaluation to determine its compliance with technical requirements.

- Must have Early Season Vigor planted in strip till and no till seedbeds.

- Plant Health o Above average GLS tolerance o Above average Goss’s bacterial wilt rating

- Above average or superior ratings for greensnap

- Above average staygreen and late season intactness

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