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While crop protection and plant breeding still could provide some growth for agriculture, BASF board member Stefan Marcinowski says future gains will rely primarily on biotechnology. (Source: AgriNews-Pubs; 5/27/08)

Results from the most extensive on-farm trial program confirm powerful disease control is linked with consistent average yield boosts of 12 to 16 bu/A in corn and 4 to 8 bu/A in soybeans with Headline ® fungicide.

BASF is getting into the seed treatment business in a big way. Going into this February, BASF offered three seed treatment products. By 2009, though, BASF will bring its seed treatment offerings up to 11. (Source: Successful Farming; 2/29/2008)

Fungicides work on corn and it is not just about disease prevention. It is also about longer stay green and better standability. Regarding the pump in yield from fungicides, one industry expert says: "The data is very positive… (fungicides) seem to be effective when disease pressure isn't always obvious." (Source: DTNAg.com, 2/19/08)

The recent registration by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a new BASF seed treatment, Stamina® fungicide, gives corn growers their best chance yet to get plants off to the right start. (Source: AgriMarketing.com, 2/21/08)

Fungicide use on corn is increasing because of the promise of a good return. BASF’s Gary Fellows said farmers can apply Headline at all stage of corn, but prior to tasseling, they shouldn't use an adjuvant. (Source: DTNAg.com, 2/21/08)

More than half of the 2007 winning participants in the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) annual yield contest relied on BASF crop protection products, particularly Headline® fungicide, to propel them into the winner's circle. (Source: AgriMarketing.com; 2/5/08)

In tests over the past five years in cotton, BASF and university researchers have found that Headline gives growers a 65 pounds-per-acre yield increase while controlling foliar diseases.

Scott Asher, BASF Diversified Regional Manager, says that field trials have shown overall improved plant health when using Headline fungicide on cotton, which translates into increased yield and quality at harvest. (Source: Agwired.com, 01/09/08)

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The results of a 2007 study by BASF show how low-volume aerial applications impact spray coverage in the corn canopy. Testing of this kind is part of ongoing research by BASF to help improve the success of aerial fungicide applications and the plant health benefits of Headline fungicide. (Source: AgriMarketing, 12/13/07)

Kip Cullers of Purdy, Mo., using Pioneer 94M80's and Headline fungicide, set the world record soybean yield in 2006 with 139 bushels an acre. He says the way to get high soybean yields is to plant the best genetics for your area and protect the plants with a fungicide program. (Source: Farm Progress; 10/10/07)

Kip Cullers of Purdy, Mo., using Pioneer 94M80's and Headline fungicide, set the world record soybean yield in 2006 with 139 bushels an acre. He says the way to get high soybean yields is to plant the best genetics for your area and protect the plants with a fungicide program. (Source: Farm Progress; 10/10/07)

Headline fungicide has become a major crop protection product for corn, not as a fungicide but as an overall plant health product. In this story BASF Vice President Emmanual Butstraen offers more insight on the plant health benefits of Headline . (Source: Agwired.com, 9/17/07)

About a third of Arkansas’ roughly 3-million acre soybean crop is still in danger from exposure to Asian soybean rust. According to Cliff Coker, an extension plant pathologist, when you spray a fungicide for rust, “you get the benefit of controlling other diseases.” (Source: Delta Farm Press, 9/12/07)

Headline® fungicide can prevent disease and boost your yields. It can also make those additional bushels easier to harvest.