Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina
February 21, 2008
For the second year, championship
corn growers have proven what
Bayer CropScience
has known all along – Poncho® 250 and Poncho 1250 seed-applied
insecticides deliver the broad-spectrum protection needed for a
winning season.
All nine first-place winners in the 2007 National Corn Growers
Association (NCGA) National Corn Yield Contest used Poncho 250
or Poncho 1250 to help produce award-winning corn yields.
Each winner will receive a $4,000 bonus from Bayer CropScience
for using Poncho seed-applied insecticide. The prize checks will
be awarded at a special presentation at 12:30 p.m., Friday,
February 29, at the Bayer CropScience booth (#833) during the
2008 Commodity Classic in Nashville.
This is not just the second year in a row that NCGA yield
contest winners have depended on Poncho. In 2004, four of the
nine winners protected their contest winning entries with
Poncho; and in 2005, seven of the nine national winners’ crops
were protected with Poncho. Then in 2006, all nine of the
national NCGA winners’ corn entries were protected with either
Poncho 250 or Poncho 1250. This repeated again in 2007, as all
nine category winners protected their corn acres with Poncho 250
or Poncho 1250.
Its chemistry provides systemic and contact activity, Poncho 250
and Poncho 1250 can maximize potential vigor, stands and yield.
Poncho 250 provides early season protection against damage
caused by black cutworms, wireworms, white grubs, seed corn
maggots, grape colaspis, flea beetles, chinch bugs and other
corn seed and seedling insect pests.
For broader spectrum protection, Poncho 1250 also protects
against damage caused by corn rootworms and billbugs.
The 2007 NCGA yield contest winners who used Poncho include:
- Steve Albracht, of Hart,
Texas, won in the Ridge Till Irrigated category with his
yield of 340.2373 bushels per acre.
- David, Johnny, and Stanley
Hula, of Charles City, Va., won in the No Till/Strip Till
Irrigated category with his yield of 385.5861 bushels per
acre.
- Kip Cullers, of Purdy,
Mo., won in the Irrigated category with his yield of
328.9704 bushels per acre.
- Sam Santini, of
Stewartsville, N.J., won in the A Non-Irrigated category
with his yield of 313.7308 bushels per acre.
- Phil, Pat, and Joe
Thompson, of Owensboro, Ky. won in the A No Till/Strip Till
Non-Irrigated category with his yield of 297.0972 bushels
per acre.
- Wally Linneweber, of
Vincennes, Ind., won in the AA Non-Irrigated category with
his yield of 292.5293 bushels per acre.
- Jeff Mezera, of Bagley,
Wisc., won in the AA No Till/Strip Till Non-Irrigated
contest. He won with his yield of 286.6688 bushels per acre.
- Elwin Tanner, Union City,
Tenn., won in the A Ridge Till Non-Irrigated category
contest with his yield of 286.4549 bushels per acre.
- Jerry Cox, of Delta, Mo.,
won in the AA Ridge Till Non-Irrigated category with his
yield of 286.4549 bushels per acre.
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