Canada - Mycogen Seeds adds three new soybean varieties for 2014
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
April 11, 2014
Mycogen Seeds is introducing three new soybean varieties with the Roundup Ready 2 Yield® trait for the 2014 growing season, providing growers with top-performing, dependable products.
“These new soybean lines give growers strong yield potential and defensive characteristics to maximize on that potential,” says Tom Claeys, Mycogen Seeds marketing specialist. “Mycogen Seeds’ continued commitment to research allows us to offer growers outstanding new products.”
Featured new soybean lines
- 5A050RR2 is a medium height plant with excellent emergence, making it an ideal choice for minimum tillage seeding. This mid-group 0 variety, at 2635 hu, will work well in medium to narrow row widths.
- 5A075RR2 is a late-group 0 variety, at 2700 hu, with the Rps 1K PRR gene. This variety is medium plant height that has very good emergence and standability, and will work well in medium to narrow row widths.
- 5A105RR2 is a medium-tall plant with demonstrating excellent yield performance. This early-group 1 variety, at 2825 hu, comes with the Rps 1K PRR gene and has very good emergence and standability. A thinner plant type will work well in medium to narrow row widths.
The dependable portfolio of Mycogen brand soybeans gives growers options by offering products with a wide range of agronomic qualities and maturities. Mycogen Seeds is committed to providing customers with new technology. Growers will continue to see the future of soybeans come through Mycogen Seeds.
“Every year, our soybean lineup grows with new and dependable products that meet our customers’ needs,” Claeys says. “We will continue developing soybeans with innovative technology and strong genetic performance.”
For more information about these new soybean products or other Mycogen brand products, contact your local Mycogen Seeds representative, or visit www.mycogen.ca.
About Dow AgroSciences Canada
Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc. brings innovation to life through people, chemistry and biotechnology in the areas of seed and crop production, and pest management. Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc. is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, with commercial and research operations across Canada. Key research facilities include corn and soybean breeding in St. Marys and Blenheim, Ontario, cereals breeding in Nairn, Ontario, and a global canola research center in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
About Mycogen Seeds
Mycogen Seeds is one of Canada’s leading seed brands, offering elite genetics in soybeans, grain and silage specific corn. A seed brand of Dow AgroSciences LLC, Mycogen Seeds maintains a robust global research and development program to bring growers high-performance genetics with the latest trait technologies that farmers need to maximize yield performance, field by field. Working together, the people of Mycogen Seeds help growers find opportunity in every acre. For more information about Mycogen brand products, visit www.mycogen.ca.
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