Innovations

Largest trait introduction in Asgrow’s history in 2016

The Asgrow brand is offering the largest selection of Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybean products for planting in 2016, with 25 products spanning all eight maturity groups.  This gives farmers across a vast geography choice in what products they plant in their local areas.

Soybean farmers throughout the country have started receiving their orders for the new Asgrow® brand Roundup Ready 2 Xtend™ soybeans this month. During the recent Commodity Classic in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dipal Chaudhari, Asgrow and DeKalb Brand Manager told Brownfield there is great excitement surrounding the introduction.

“It is exciting to be able to have this option to have the game-changing elite genetics and the agronomic and defensive packages to protect them,” said Chaudhari.

These products are built on the higher-yielding Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean technology.  They include the latest Asgrow genetics, including resistance to soybean nematodes and Phytophthora root rot.

Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans combine glyphosate and dicamba herbicide tolerance, however as of March 3, 2016, the use of dicamba herbicide over the top of Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans remains in late stage of Environmental Protectoin Agency (EPA) review and has not yet been approved.

Chaudhari tells Brownfield this introduction represents an exciting milestone for the Asgrow brand and for farmers: