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Crop Protection Solutions: Bulldoze Your Pest Problems
Build crop protection plans with a strong foundation to keep yield-robbing pests from slipping through the cracks.
May 2025
| BY by syngenta thrive
2 Min Read
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It Starts With a Solid Foundation
A safe home needs to have good bones. Protecting seedlings from the start can help boost yield potential:
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:
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:
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:
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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