Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina
March 20, 2008
Expanding farm sizes, intricate
record-keeping requirements and complex input decisions all make
increasing demands on the one finite resource shared by soybean
growers: time.
So the Trilex 6000 Soybean System from
Bayer CropScience
-- new for the 2008 season -- can help growers manage part of
the time puzzle: researching and deciding seed-applied soybean
inputs.
Trilex 6000 Soybean System combines the technologies of Trilex,
Yield Shield and Allegiance seed-applied fungicides; Celgard;
Gaucho seed-applied insecticide; and Pro-Ized Red Colorant in
one seed treatment. These products combine to protect against
detrimental insects and fungi including overwintering bean leaf
beetle, soybean aphids, Rhizoctonia, Fusarium, Pythium and early
season Phytophthora.
"Soybeans were once considered an easy crop to grow," explains
Louis Holloway, Bayer CropScience product development manager.
"Plant, spray your postemergence herbicide and harvest."
But soybean production isn't as simple as once thought.
According to the University of Illinois, seed treatments can pay
if planting early, planting no-till ground, there is a history
of insect pressure or the seed is expensive.
Trilex 6000 Soybean System has been shown to increase soybean
yields. A series of Midwest university yield trials conducted in
2006 found soybeans treated with Trilex 6000 Soybean System
delivered an average yield 13 percent higher than untreated
soybeans.
"The benefits of the Trilex 6000 Soybean System can be
attributed to the unique combination of traditional chemistry,
biological activity and seed enhancements in a single
seed-applied package," Holloway says. "No other company can
match the seed-applied portfolio of the Trilex 6000 Soybean
System."
Naturally, growers want to maximize yields without further
straining their time commitments and would consider additional
inputs if they lead to increased yields.
"But it's one more item on an already lengthy list of what
growers need to research when making the yearly planting
decisions," Holloway concluded. "The Trilex 6000 Soybean System
helps simplify their soybean input decisions by providing custom
matched solutions into a single system"
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