Archive of the Soybean Category

The Pair ‘em Up for Profit program from Syngenta Seed Care offers growers a per-unit rebate on the purchase of Avicta Complete Corn nematicide/insecticide/fungicide treated corn seed for every 10 units of CruiserMaxx Beans insecticide/fungicide treated soybean seed purchased.

This program pairs highly effective nematode, insect and disease protection for corn and proven insect and disease protection for soybeans while reducing a grower’s investment by $15 per unit of treated corn seed.

“Through the Pair ‘em Up for Profit rebate program we hope to offer corn and soybean growers the opportunity to try the latest seed treatment technology on corn while using the market-leading seed treatment for soybeans, all while producing higher yields at harvest,” said Mark Jirak, crop manager, Syngenta Seed Care. “Avicta Complete Corn and CruiserMaxx Beans, two of the marketing-leading seed treatments for corn and soybeans, respectively, offer immediate protection against early-season pests and work more

Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, and DuPont have announced they have entered into a commercial cross-licensing agreement that will enable the two companies to deliver expanded herbicide-tolerant soybean options to farmers in the next decade.

Under the agreement, Dow AgroSciences is licensing non-exclusively its proprietary herbicide tolerant trait technology for soybeans to DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred. In addition, Pioneer is licensing non-exclusively its proprietary Optimum GAT trait for soybeans to Dow AgroSciences. Both companies have given the other rights to stack additional traits with their respective technology. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

“This agreement gives us a new weed control option to help our customers meet their individual needs,” said Paul E. Schickler, president — Pioneer.

Dow AgroSciences expects to submit herbicide tolerant trait technology data to U.S. regulatory agencies this year. Dow AgroSciences anticipates commercialization early in the more

Becker Underwood, developer, marketer and producer of bioagronomic products for agriculture, introduces Vault HP, a new bio-based, multi-component, growth enhancer for soybeans.

Applied at a rate of only 2.0 fluid ounces per hundredweight of seed, the Vault HP system features a new, patented performance booster, a biofungicide and a patent-pending rhizobial inoculant offering industry-leading on-seed survival.

“Vault HP is the first in a planned series of new performance-boosting seed-enhancement systems we expect to introduce over the next few years,” says Eda Reinot, Becker Underwood global manager, research and development. “This soybean-specific system features a new, patented growth promoter. It also includes a patent-pending formulation of nitrogen-fixing rhizobia combined with special packaging designed to help ensure industry-leading on-seed survival of all system components. And, the new Vault HP system includes our Integral biofungicide to help suppress diseases such as fusarium and rhizoctonia for better plant health.”

“The Vault HP system more

In keeping with a commitment to deliver innovations for agriculture, food companies and consumers, Monsanto Company and Solae, LLC have announced the companies have reached an important regulatory milestone that advances the development of foods containing the world’s first stearidonic acid (SDA) omega-3 soybean oil product.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) notice confirming that the SDA omega-3 soybean oil could be used under the intended conditions of use.

The confirmation of GRAS status enables food companies to develop and test foods containing the new omega-3 oil, which are important steps towards consumers being able to benefit from this omega-3 product in a variety of food products with an acceptable taste experience.

Consumer demand for omega-3 fatty acids is growing as research continues to demonstrate that diets rich in omega-3 fatty acids help play an important role in maintaining more

As more growers continue to look for yield and profit enhancement from soybean seed treatments, retailers face the challenge of treating more units of soybeans in 2010.

The soybean seed treatment market is growing rapidly and products must now meet two demands — efficacy in the field and ease of use at the treater. The latest from the leader in that category, EMD Crop BioScience, is Optimize 400 with LCO Promoter Technology for soybeans.

Based on the popular Optimize soybean seed treatment, the formulation of Optimize 400 has been specifically designed for optimal seed treatability, delivering many new benefits to seed retailers as they are looking for ways to increase the efficiency of their seed treatment operation. The company is announcing the new seed-applied product in time for the 2010 seed treatment planning season.

Chuck Broughton, North American Soybean and Southern Crops Marketing Manager for EMD Crop BioScience, says more

Building on strong early-season performance for soybeans with the Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield trait and Acceleron seed treatment products, Monsanto Company has announced that soybeans with the new trait and seed treatment are demonstrating additional indicators of higher yield potential.

The new biotechnology trait is designed to deliver higher yield potential to farmers, and the seed treatment products help maximize crop performance potential beginning at planting.

“This breakthrough technology continues to meet and exceed expectations,” said Lisa Flynn, Monsanto Soybean Traits Marketing Manager. “Yield trials across the country are mirroring the benefits our customers are reporting about Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans. We’re finding these soybeans are demonstrating significantly higher root biomass and a greater number of mainstem nodes per plant compared to competitive products and first-generation traits.”

Increased root biomass and greater numbers of nodes per plant are important factors contributing to higher yield potential. more

Farmers who planted Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans this season say they are optimistic and impressed by the performance of this next-generation technology at this point in the season.

More than 16,000 farmers planted Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans with the Acceleron seed treatment on about 1.5 million acres across the Midwest in 2009. With harvest approaching, many of these growers are encouraged by the flowering, pod fill and overall plant health they are observing — all early physiological indicators of strong yield potential.

Bill Couser, who farms in Nevada, Iowa, said he is impressed with the performance he is seeing. “My Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield beans are coming along really well,” Couser said. “They’re my nicest-looking beans and the furthest along so far. They are flowering and starting to pod. They are by far the most uniform fields as far as standability, and everything just looks more

Chemtura has received Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration for a novel soybean seed-applied fungicide, Rancona Summit.

Rancona Summit is a “step change” for soybean seed treatment which gives growers the ability to access all the distinctive seed and seedling disease protective features of Rancona in a ready-to-use product for soybeans.

Rancona Summit has contact as well as systemic activities and is highly efficacious against a majority of seed and soil-borne fungi which cause seed decay, damping-off and seedling blight in the plant pathogenic fungal classes of Zygomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes, and Fungi Imperfect (Deuteromycetes).

Rancona Summit is a combination, ready-to-use product for soybeans which contains ipconazole, the same active ingredient as Rancona 3.8 FS, and metalaxyl for pythium protection.

Rancona Summit is a microdispersion formulation which is specially designed for soybean crops. It is an extremely low viscosity product which is much thinner than other flowable crop protection more

BASF is proud to announce its exclusive partnership with the American Soybean Association (ASA) and Doane Advisory Services to provide the Soybean Rust and Aphids Program (SoyRAP) Web site www.soyrap.com. BASF, among several companies, had previously been a co-sponsor of the Web site for several years.

SoyRAP is the foremost Web site for advice about the prevention of Asian soybean rust and treatment of soybean aphids. It utilizes a nationwide network of crop consultants who monitor the progression of confirmed soybean rust outbreaks in the U.S., and provides growers with fungicide and insecticide application recommendations based on regional analysis.

“SoyRAP provides growers with an important and up-to-date resource to help maintain a healthy crop,” said Nick Fassler, Technical Market Manager for BASF. “Soybean aphid populations and Asian soybean rust can be yield-robbing and can grow and spread very quickly. Preventative applications of a fungicide, such as Headline fungicide more

American farmers have adopted genetically engineered (GE) crops widely since their introduction in 1996, especially corn, cotton and soybean varieties, according to a new USDA report.

USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) report, Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S. was released July 1, 2009. Key findings include:

• Adoption of GE soybeans is 91 percent in 2009.

• Adoption of all GE cotton reached 88 percent in 2009.

• Adoption of all biotech corn climbed to 85 percent in 2009.

Sharon Bomer Lauritsen, executive vice-president, food and agriculture for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), issued the following statement in response to the report’s findings:

“Because of the compelling benefits that biotech crops provide, herbicide-tolerant and insect-resistant varieties of corn, cotton and soybeans continue to be the choice of American farmers. Since 1996, these crops have proved to yield more per acre and reduce farmers’ production costs with more environmentally friendly farming practices.

“The move to biotechnology and modern farming practices is reflected in the choices of farmers around the world. In 2008, 309 million acres of biotech crops were planted in 25 countries by 13.3 million farmers. At a time when the United States and the world are looking for sustainable, science-based solutions to rising food and fuel demands, this trend is likely to continue.

“Agricultural biotechnology has significant environmental benefits because biotech crop varieties thrive with less tilling and fewer pesticide applications, thereby saving fuel and reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the air. In 2007, this was equivalent to removing 14.2 billion kg of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or equal to removing nearly 6.3 million cars from the road for one year.

“The next generation of biotech crops, with resistance to environmental stresses such as drought and flood, and the ability to better use soil nutrients, promise to increase productivity in areas with less than adequate growing conditions, including many developing countries. And we continue to discover new energy sources with biofuels made from corn, wood, grasses, algae and non-edible parts of plants- such as cornstalks.

“Farmers in the United States and around the world recognize how biotechnology improves their bottom line by reducing their costs and increasing crop productivity. Agricultural biotechnology is providing science-based solutions to the challenges we face today and tomorrow to more sustainably feed and fuel the world.”

The report summarizes the extent of adoption of herbicide-tolerant and insect–resistant crops since their introduction in 1996. Three tables within the report devoted to corn, cotton, and soybeans cover the 2000-09 period by U.S. state.

A copy of the USDA ERS report, Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S. (July 1, 2009) including data tables is posted at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/BiotechCrops.