Growing soybeans Issue 8

ADVANCE

YOUR YIELD.

Genuity® Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybeans have built-in yield potential to outperform original Roundup Ready® Soybeans, with farmers seeing more 3,4 and 5 bean pods For more beans per pod and more bushels per acre, be sure your soybeans have the trait technology that’s advancing the yield of soybean growers across Canada. Ask for the 2.

GENUITY® BECAUSE EVERY BEAN MATTERS. VISIT YOUR SEED REP OR GENUITYTRAITS.CA ALWAYS FOLLOW GRAIN MARKETING AND ALL OTHER STEWARDSHIP AND PESTICIDE LABEL DIRECTIONS. Details of these requirements can be found in the Trait Stewardship Responsibilities Notice to Farmers printed in this publication. ©2013 Monsanto Company

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Photo taken by John Heard of MAFRI

Photo taken by John Heard of MAFRI

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Vibrant plants collect more sunshine.

Crops thrive with Cruiser Maxx® Vibrance™. When the Vigor Trigger ® effect meets Rooting Power ™, you get enhanced crop establishment from stronger, faster-growing plants, above and below the ground. It also protects your soybeans against a broad range of insects and diseases and delivers best-in-class Rhizoctonia control.

Visit SyngentaFarm.ca or contact our Customer Resource Centre at 1-87-SYNGENTA (1-877-964-3682).

Always read and follow label directions. Cruiser Maxx® VibranceTM Beans, Rooting PowerTM, Vigor Trigger ®, the Alliance Frame, the Purpose Icon and the Syngenta logo are trademarks of a Syngenta Group Company. © 2012 Syngenta Canada Inc.

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Soybeans are resilient in wet weather and, against all odds, Duvenaud’s emerging crop in late June appeared not bad at all.

People were nervous in terms of whether they were going to get on to fields. Some of them were switching from soybeans to something else. Then some switched back again, too.

Source: Becker Underwood

Everything’s bigger in Western Canada.

Now, so are your soybean yields.

Growers have made Nodulator® N/T Canada’s #1 soybean inoculant. Choose our BioStacked® liquid and BioStacked® sterile peat formulations for greater plant vigour, more root biomass and more nitrogen-fixing nodules on every plant. For in-furrow use, look to our unique Nodulator® spherical granules or new Rhizup® peat granules. In 2013, grow BIG with Nodulator® N/T.

BioStacked®, Nodulator® and Rhizup® are registered trademarks used under license by Becker Underwood Canada Ltd. The Becker Underwood logo is a trademark of Becker Underwood, Inc. and is licensed to Becker Underwood Canada Ltd.

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Seeds planted

Target stand*

DK 2510 actual

DK 2510 yield bu/ac

Pekko actual

Pekko yield bu/ac

8 inch high 8 inch med 8 inch low

205,000

182,450

191,660

44.9

191.660

40.4

180,00

160,200

165,530

44.3

165,530

40.2

155,00

137,950

139,390

44.0

142,300

40.8

15 inch high 15 inch med 15 inch low

176,000

156,640

147,140

45.2

147,140

41.6

150,000

133,500

127,770

44.7

127,770

41.4

123,000

109,470

106,480

43.8

106,480

41.2

30 inch high 30 inch med 30 inch low

176,000

156,640

145,200

44.0

149,070

38.8

150,000

133,500

129,710

44.8

129,710

39.7

123,000

109,470

114.220

44.7

116,160

39.8

Treatment

The tipping point for a planter purchase at around 320 acres of soybeans annually. At that point, saving 30,000 seeds per acre can start to add up and justify the cost of a planter.

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If you are planting into questionable soil conditions, a planter might be able to pay back your investment pretty quickly.

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TOP PERFORMANCE GROWS IN WESTERN CANADA Viterra’s Corn and Soybean seed varieties for 2014 are top performing options for growers in Western Canada.

Corn growers can count on robust genetics and the development of early germplasm for northern climates, with supplier partners DEKALB® and Pride Seed, in early maturing, higher performing hybrids, for grain, silage, and grazing corn.

Soybean growers can take advantage of the exceptionally early maturing, new Genuity® Roundup Ready® 2 Yield varieties in non-traditional soybean production areas, as well as lower risk varieties in traditional production areas.

With supplier partners, DEKALB® and NorthStar Genetics Canada, growers have options for superior soybean varieties and new growers can benefit from the offer of a complete toted package of soybean seed treatment and inoculant, featuring Nodulator PRO.

For flexible payment terms and superior products; including complete packages of fertility, crop protection, seed treatment, and inoculant, speak to your Viterra retail or visit: forages.viterra.ca

Monsanto Company is a member of Excellence Through Stewardship® (ETS). Monsanto products are commercialized in accordance with ETS Product Launch Stewardship Guidance, and in compliance with Monsanto’s Policy for Commercialization of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products in Commodity Crops. This product has been approved for import into key export markets with functioning regulatory systems. Any crop or material produced from this product can only be exported to, or used, processed or sold in countries where all necessary regulatory approvals have been granted. It is a violation of national and international law to move material containing biotech traits across boundaries into nations where import is not permitted. Growers should talk to their grain handler or product purchaser to confirm their buying position for this product. Excellence Through Stewardship® is a registered trademark of Excellence Through Stewardship.

ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW PESTICIDE LABEL DIRECTIONS. Roundup Ready® crops contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup® brand agricultural herbicides.

Roundup® brand agricultural herbicides will kill crops that are not tolerant to glyphosate. DEKALB®, Genuity® and Design®, Roundup Ready 2 Yield®, Roundup Ready® and Roundup® are trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC, Monsanto Canada, Inc. licensee. ©2013 Monsanto Canada Inc.

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Foster’s Focus

A column by Sarah Foster of 20/20 Seed Labs

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