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For the full pest preparation blueprint, check out the Crop Protection Program Inspection.

FOR GRADE A YIELD POTENTIAL, BUILD A ROBUST, SEASON-LONG PROGRAM

It Starts With a Solid Foundation

A safe home needs to have good bones. Protecting seedlings from the start can help boost yield potential:

  • Choose a soybean seed treatment that helps plants emerge healthier, with proven protection acting as insurance for your seed investment. Using CruiserMaxx® APX alongside Saltro® protects your soybeans at their most vulnerable stage from SDS, SCN, Pythium, Phytophthora and more, while also delivering stronger plant stands, larger root mass and faster speed-to-canopy – which adds up to higher potential yields.
  • Make a preemergence herbicide application containing multiple modes of action and strong residuals, like Storen® for corn or Tendovo® for soybeans. Using these herbicides prevents weed from robbing key nutrients from your crop.
  • Use a corn herbicide like Storen or Acuron® in a two-pass program to provide season-long weed control of 70+ grass and broadleaf weeds that helps fully protect your yield potential.

But It Doesn’t Stop There

A house can still fall without proper upkeep and maintenance. Avoid long-term issues by managing weeds through crop canopy:

  • Control the seed, not the weed. Weed seeds can open the door to thousands more next season and create the potential for increased resistance.
  • Dual Magnum® postemergence residual herbicide, when used following Tendovo, helps soybean fields stay clean throughout the season, preventing late-season weed competition.
  • Consider a tank mix of powerful wheat herbicides. Talinor® herbicide can be tank mixed with Axial® Star or Axial Bold herbicides to customize management of tough grass and broadleaf weeds, such as Italian ryegrass, wild oat, kochia and Russian thistle.

A Healthy Home is a Happy Home

There’s surviving, and then there’s thriving! Reducing crop stress is key to boosting bushels:

  • Be proactive with fungicide By the time you spot the disease, it’s often too late to control it.
  • Preventive fungicide applications not only protect your crop from yield-robbing diseases but can help boost overall crop health. The Syngenta portfolio of fungicides, – including Miravis® Ace for wheat, Miravis Top for soybeans, Miravis Neo for corn or soybeans and Trivapro® for corn – provide those plant-health benefits while controlling disease for maximum potential yield.

Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Call the exterminator! Proactive insect pest management can save you from a tough time:

  • Scout frequently and consider tank mixing an insecticide with your fungicide to protect yields. Multiple insect pests, each below threshold levels, can reduce yield, so don’t wait for individual insect populations to boom. Instead, be proactive and spray Endigo® ZCX insecticide when soybean fungicide goes down.
  • Consider tank mixing an insecticide with your corn starter fertilizer at-planting to minimize pest damage and preserve plant health.

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Homes must be built on a strong foundation and kept clean and pest-free to ensure its occupants can thrive — and so should your crops! It’s time to inspect your crop protection program and fill in the gaps before problems arise.

Weeds

Corn & Soybeans

Wheat

  • Kochia
    • Drought tolerant, so it is competitive in tough environments
  • Wild oat
    • Seeds can mix with wheat grains at harvest, resulting in price penalties

Diseases

Corn

Soybeans

  • Phytophthora
  • Pythium
    • Can infect soybeans within 90 minutes of planting
  • Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS)
    • Can result in flower and/or pod abortion, reducing yield potential
  • Frogeye leaf spot
    • Can cause up to 35% yield loss

Wheat

  • Stripe rust
    • Produces spores which embed in plant leaves, inhibiting photosynthesis
  • Fusarium head blight
    • One of the most economically devastating wheat diseases

Insect Pests

Corn

Soybeans

Wheat

  • Wireworms
    • If wireworms are not addressed, up to 100% yield loss has been observed in the Pacific Northwest, and inconsistent stands can have consequences, such as replanting or weeds filling in bare spots

CROP PROTECTION PLANNING PUNCH LIST

Think like an inspector — based on your field’s history, what problems can you expect?

Weeds

  • What are my most problematic weeds?
  • Did I have any weed escapes or practices that could have spread seed?
  • Does my herbicide program provide overlapping residual through crop canopy closure?

Diseases

  • What diseases were most prevalent last year?
  • Am I being proactive in disease management?
  • Besides disease mitigation, how else can fungicides benefit my crops?

Insects

  • Which insect species were present in my field or neighboring soybean fields last year?
  • Have I considered in the impact that low levels of multiple insect species may have on yields?

Now that you have your list, it’s time to identify what you can do to prevent them from compounding into bigger issues. Click here for Crop Protection Solutions.

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One of the main takeaways from scouting is Mother Nature finds a way. Pests change when selection pressure changes, and scouts must adjust to stay a step ahead.

The history of cotton scouting gives us insight into how the practice evolved in other crops. Mid 1920s: North Carolina cotton reached almost 2 million acres. Late 1960s: Acreage dropped to about 50,000 acres when J.R. Bradley, Ph.D., arrived in the state.

When growers had to spray for boll weevil, they sprayed so often that the treatments killed off most other insects, including those beneficial in the field.

The National Cotton Council called for volunteers to campaign for a boll weevil eradication program in their communities. Marshall Grant, a farmer, was key in getting that legislation passed in North Carolina.

Once the Boll Weevil Eradication Program was successfully executed, growers could reduce their frequency of spray treatments.

European corn borer and tobacco budworm replaced boll weevil as the major pests.

Spray treatment thresholds were very important for worm eggs in cotton. When thresholds were reached, it was time to treat.

Bt cotton, which is toxic to the larvae of bollworms and tobacco budworms, was released  in the 1990s. Bt cotton technology was so effective at managing worms that insecticide applications declined and new stink bugs and plant bugs became foremost cotton pests.

Cotton scouts still look for plant bugs, stink bugs and the damage they cause. There is no substitute for boots on the ground, but new technologies like satellite, airplane and drone imagery arm scouts with better knowledge.