Make Every Seed Count in 2024
By the time you start your combine, you have overcome so many challenges that you may overlook the steps you took at planting to maximize your return on investment (ROI). One of the key factors to setting yourself up for success as you cross the harvest finish line is your seed treatment selection way back at the beginning of the year.
“Seed treatments are the bridge between early-season benefits and late-season ROI,” says Dale Ireland, Ph.D., Syngenta Seedcare technical product lead. “As soon as seeds go in the soil, insects and diseases begin attacking while abiotic factors, such as weather, begin stressing the young seedlings. Seed treatments provide immediate protection for your seed investment, establish strong plant stands and limit your replant risk, which ultimately boosts your potential yield.”
In addition to disease and insect protection, seed treatments have a two-fold benefit. They limit the added cost and time associated with replanting and can increase the ROI potential of a field by helping seedlings emerge stronger, faster and healthier.
Ben Van Roekel, a grower based in southern Iowa who documents his farming adventures as iowANFarmer on YouTube, says he uses seed treatments because they pay off.
“There’s not a lot you can do in farming that pays off almost 90% of the time, but seed treatments do,” Van Roekel says. “I’ve learned in my almost 10 years of farming that applying a seed treatment should be a no-brainer. It’s money in your pocket.”
To help set a strong foundation for growth, nutrient uptake and potential yield, Ireland recommends Syngenta seed treatments CruiserMaxx® APX and Saltro® to help preserve yield and maximize your seed investment.
“CruiserMaxx APX protects soybeans against yield-robbing insects and diseases, like Pythium and Phytophthora, while enabling faster, more uniform emergence, stronger plants and roots, and quicker speed-to-canopy,” Ireland says. “By adding on Saltro, you can get superior Sudden Death Syndrome protection and robust Soybean Cyst Nematode protection. Whether you plant early next year or later in warmer weather, you can trust these products to help your soybeans maximize their genetic yield potential.”
After putting CruiserMaxx APX and Saltro to the test on his farm, Van Roekel agrees.
”CruiserMaxx APX was a one-jug and done remedy that made it easy to treat my soybeans,” he says. “Saltro definitely held its own in the trials on my farm this year. It averaged 0.5 to 1 bushel higher than older SDS treatments. With Saltro, there was definitely way less stress at emergence, and the soybeans looked way healthier.”
Want to better protect your seed investment in 2024? Talk to your retailer or Syngenta representative about supercharging your F/I seed treatment to CruiserMaxx APX and upgrading to Saltro for superior SDS protection. You can also visit SyngentaUS.com/CruiserMaxxAPX or WhySaltro.com to see more local trial results and product reviews.
Syngenta hereby disclaims any liability for third-party websites referenced herein.
All photos are either the property of Syngenta or are used with permission.
© 2023 Syngenta. Important: Always read and follow label instructions. Some products may not be registered for sale or use in all states or counties. Please check with your local extension service to ensure registration status. CruiserMaxx®, Saltro® and the Syngenta logo are trademarks of a Syngenta Group Company. All other trademarks are the property of their respective third-party owners.
