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Driving the Seed Industry to New Heights

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We celebrated our second annual Latham Freedom of Independence Ride on August 30, where farmers rode to test plots throughout central Iowa and learned about seed technologies that are helping drive our industry to new heights of crop protection and yield.

Click any of the products or seed technologies below for a brief recap of the field presentations on August 30.

Genuity® SmartStax™ corn hybrids – Genuity SmartStax offer the broadest spectrum of above- and below-ground protection insect protection, combining multiple modes of action for effective control of pests like corn earworm, western bean cutworm and more.

Genuity® Roundup Ready 2 Yield® Soybeans – Farmers can enjoy the same flexibility, dependability and crop safety that they have enjoyed for decades with the Roundup Ready soybeans system, but this next generation of Roundup Ready provides more bushels per acre.

LibertyLink® Corn and Soybeans – LibertyLink combines crop safety with built-in tolerance to fast-acting Ignite herbicide, which controls more than 120 broadleaf weeds and grasses including ALS- and glyphosate-resistant weeds.

Agrisure® 3111 GT – The Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack offers the broadest available spectrum of above- and below-ground insect control, protecting against quality-robbing insects including corn borer and corn rootworm.

Below is a video of the second annual Freedom of Independence Ride. Can you tell why we’re already looking forward to next year’s ride?

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Coming Soon … Refuge-in-the-Bag Products

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Latham® customers today are getting a first-hand look at new hybrid seed corn and soybean traits during field stops on the 2nd annual Latham Freedom of Independence Ride. One such stop is a Genuity® Technology Showcase, featuring Genuity® SmartStaxTM and Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield® Soybeans.

Genuity Technology Showcases are an important step to helping evaluate useful product concepts like Genuity Smart Stax, which will be a principal component for Refuge in the Bag (RIB). Pending regulatory approval, the single-bag RIB concept for Genuity SmartStax corn and Genuity VT Double PROTM corn will put the required refuge for Insect Resistance Management (IRM) into the same bag as the fully traited corn. Once approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a 5% RIB option will provide an IRM strategy for above-and below-ground insect management that is delivered to the field. 

The Genuity SmartStax RIB product concept uses the same multiple modes of action for broad-spectrum insect control as Genuity SmartStax, which was launched this season and reduces structured refuge from 20% to 5% in the Corn Belt. Genuity SmartStax is the only hybrid seed corn product that is currently approved for a 5% refuge; it has the lowest required refuge in the Corn Belt. 

NOTE: Pioneer’s Optimum® AcreMax TM 1 is not a true single-bag solution for RIB. The 10% in-the-bag corn rootworm refuge carries a separate 20% above-ground refuge requirement for Optimum AcreMax. For more clarity regarding refuge requirements, listen to this audio clip: Genuity SmartStax Corn.

Biotech Yield Assurance Helps Farmers Manage Risk

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U.S. farmers can choose an additional risk management tool with Biotech Yield Assurance(SM) for the 2011 growing season. The crop insurance program links an insurance policy to the yield benefits of Genuity® Roundup Ready 2 Yield® Soybeans and Genuity SmartStax™ corn.

For an incremental premium, Biotech Yield Assurance will enable eligible farmers to increase coverage by 10 percent of the existing yield guarantee for each insured unit that is 100 percent planted to Genuity® Roundup Ready 2 Yield® Soybeans in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota, and each insured unit that is 95 percent planted to Genuity SmartStax™ corn in the states of Iowa and Minnesota.

“Biotech Yield Assurance(SM) policy can help address the risk gap between new high-yielding genetics and actual production history (APH) used for insurance purposes,” said Ted Etheredge, President of ARMtech. “For example, a grower with an APH of 50 bushels and a Biotech Yield Assurance(SM) policy for Genuity® Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybeans can bring his total unit coverage to 93.5 percent and insure an additional 4.25 bushels. That’s compared to a Multi-Peril Crop Insurance policy covering 85 percent of APH – the highest coverage possible under federal crop insurance policies today.”

Click here to read the full press release.

Source: Monsanto press release