Yield totals varied widely across the corn and soybean production areas of the United States this past season. The head of soybean strategy for Syngenta’s North American seed business, Jared Benson, calls it ‘a tale of two farms.’ “You had a lot of areas where you had record-breaking yields; we had a lot of areas that looked like they were going to be record-breaking, but they had some really tough drought conditions that stressed them in August, and other areas where there were a lot of floods early on.” Weed pressure remains a worry. Benson says Syngenta has new options on the horizon. “Syngenta, in collaboration with MS Technologies, is bringing forward a new trait platform at the end of this decade,” said Benson. “That’s going to be a trait platform that has the most active ingredients, the most modes of action on the market, giving farmers the biggest, broadest toolbox available to be able to manage weeds according to their preferences and their needs.” This chemistry will be stacked with the Enlist platform plus a broad-spectrum HPPD tolerance. Listen to the full interview.
