Welcome to AgSCI

Seed Scout is an Online Search Tool under development by AgSCI to serve farmers as an employment agency of sorts - or head hunter. The AgSCI Seed Scout will help you find the qualifications, experience and adaptation of leading seed company candidates from trustworthy, independent seed test results.

The Seed Scout: 6 Simple Steps . .

1.	Help Wanted
Like placing a classified ad to find a good employee, your seed search begins with defining what you need. Use Seed Scout to select your crop type, location of planting and more.

2.	Qualified Applicants
Scan resumes (data summaries) that meet your specifications for credentials (seed technologies) experience (number of tests) and performance (bushels and percentage above the average).

3.	The Interview
Call up the most promising candidates to investigate their claims (performance reports) then dismiss those that you don't need (data records) and sort by duties (column headers) most critical to you.

4.	Job Placement - Under Construction
Find a good fit by detailing where he would work (create a seed pallet) by naming the fields, the tillable acres and the seeds per acre you'll be planting.

5.	Salary Negotiation - Under Construction
Chat with seed companies to get even more information.

6.	The Bunk House - Under Construction
Store your reports (seed pallets) for the year to reference what you purchased, how much you've paid, where you will plant the seed and how well it met your expectations. Your comments will be pooled with others for hiring on next years crop.

Grain production always begins with the seed, but what was once selected by farmers in the field has become a multi-billion dollar industry. Bringing new seed and seed technologies onto the farm continue to boost our harvest, though some add far more to the bottom line than others. Seed costs have more than doubled with the promise of more bushels and more management options, so the demand for clear thinking has never been greater.

A good way to think about selecting seed is like taking on a hired man. You'll put him to work before you know everything you'd like to know and he will be better at some things than others.

Just as every cell in the body is genetically identical so is every plant in the field. How a corn hybrid or soybean variety performs in all the different areas of a field can be thought of as his job description over the course of the growing season.

What challenges will he face? Will who you employ make a difference? Is it hard to find good help these days?!

Search independent third party corn and soybean yield results by your specifications; maturity, testing year(s), state(s), region(s), and traits. The “Hot-List Report” provides the following results for all products matching search criterion:

	Company		Product Name
	Maturity		Trait
	Number of Reporting Tests		Grain Yield
	Performance Consistency vs. Test Average.

“Head to Head” Comparisons not Required
Products are compared based on performance relative to the test average. This allows products to be compared without being in the same trial. Through numerous test comparisons, the true product performance is realized.

Sort the data the way YOU want.
Simply left click a column header and rows will sort in descending order. Click the column header again to sort in ascending order. This feature is available for all table columns.

Fine-tune Agronomic Factors to Match YOUR Farm
Find and interesting product and want to see detailed test results? No problem here. The Performance Report provides production input (tillage, nitrogen rate, etc.) and harvest (yield, lodging, grain moisture) information for all tests. Even better, you can exclude tests by production practices, tailoring results to match your operation.

Free Trial Period
If you haven't already signed-up you can do so now at no cost this year. Once programming for the Seed Scout is completed in 2011, you will have found an irreplaceable assistant to manage your annual corn and soybean seed purchases.

Data Provided By:


F.I.R.S.T. Seed Tests