Syngenta has introduced its 2006 AgriEdge™ Corn and Soybean programs, the most comprehensive selection ever offered for protecting crops from planting through harvest. The innovative programs comprise a full portfolio of seed, seed treatment, traits and crop protection products – along with crop-performance assurances and technical expertise – to help manage risk, control costs and maximize yields and profitability. 

“AgriEdge allows growers to take control and be pro-active about their input decisions,” says Travis Dickinson, Head, New Business Development, Syngenta Seeds.  “While many crop input programs seem to put more emphasis on limitations and restrictions, Syngenta has designed AgriEdge for the purpose of offering growers choices and flexibility, allowing them to make the right decisions at the right time.”

AgriEdge Corn – More Options, More Control 

AgriEdge Corn provides growers with comprehensive protection from planting to harvest through state-of-the-industry risk management assurances. Growers who plant a corn hybrid with an Agrisure trait (Agrisure CB for season-long corn borer protection;  Agrisure GT with proven glyphosate tolerance; or Agrisure GT/CB, the stacked traits) are automatically eligible for the AgriEdge Corn program.

In addition to premium genetics and assurances that come with hybrids featuring Agrisure™ traits, growers participating in AgriEdge Corn choose from a wide range of weed and insect management options for protection against weed escapes, pests and crop loss.  AgriEdge technology reinvestments of up to $21 per acre ensure that growers only pay for the herbicide traits they use.

AgriEdge Soybeans – A New Way to Think about the Crop

Designed to help growers break through the yield barrier, AgriEdge Soybeans features premium genetics combined with insect and disease risk management tools for protection from planting to harvest.  The program encourages growers to apply a Syngenta fungicide, insecticide or seed treatment product on up to 40 acres by providing an assurance that the yield increase will offset the additional input expenses.

Now in its second year, AgriEdge Soybeans provides participating growers with production information from other soybean producers.

 They receive individual and aggregated trial results from participants across the country, which allows them to identify profit-optimizing practices, receive analyses of yield-impacting factors and compare their own results to national and regional data.

“With the AgriEdge Soybeans program, we hope growers will overcome the yield plateau many of them are experiencing,” Dickinson says.  “We’ve already seen seven-bushel-per-acre yield increases in the first trial period. That’s just the beginning. Drawing on the soybean data we gather, we’re going to highlight the production problems, solve them and share best practices.”

Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. The company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in the high-value commercial seeds market. Sales in 2004 were approximately $7.3 billion. Syngenta employs some 19,000 people in over 90 countries. Syngenta is listed on the Swiss stock exchange (SYNN) and in New York (SYT). Further information is available at www.syngenta.com.

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