Getting to the finish line with your best yield achievement
March 1, 2024
There’s nothing more rewarding than admiring a clean, healthy crop. The next step is a successful harvest and finishing the growing season strong with record breaking crop performance.
The challenge is, making it to the finish line with full, clean heads that stay upright.
Face lodging head on to protect crop quality
Unfortunately, the same conditions that result in favourable crop development and yield excellence can also cause lodging. Yield losses from lodging can vary, but lodged crops can lose up to 1 bu/ac/day. Research also suggests that losses can be up to 40% if the lodging occurs within the 10 days after heading1.
Lodging exposes the crop to production risks like reduced grain quality, yield and secondary diseases. These can all add up to production constraints and serve a serious hit to a grower’s bottom line.
Plant growth regulators like Moddus® are useful tools in managing the risk of lodging by inhibiting production of the plant hormone, gibberellic acid. Gibberellic acid stimulates rapid stem and root growth, so limiting the amount available to a growing cereal plant reduces stem elongation, resulting in thicker, stronger stems that mitigate the likelihood of lodging.
Visit this page to learn more about how Moddus can support cereal yields.
Keep your crop green and clean for heavier heads and more yield
Once cereals are set up for success with the ability to support the weight of heavier heads, keeping the crop clean and green all season long to maximize grain fill is the next step. Protecting cereals from fusarium head blight, ergot and late season leaf diseases with the help of Miravis® brand fungicides will help ensure the crop not only stays standing, but can put its energy towards maximizing yield.
Deliver more marketable yield
ADEPIDYN® technology (the active ingredient in the Miravis® brand fungicides) not only provides powerful, long-lasting disease protection to keep your crop healthy, it delivers performance at the finish line by reducing the level of mycotoxin contamination, contributing to a higher grade and more marketable grain.
How Miravis® Ace performs in barley2:
Miravis® Ace vs. Untreated
Barley quality data
Data from small plot replicated trials 2016-2019. n=10 for %DON, n=13 for %FDK.How Miravis® Era performs in spring wheat2:
Reduction in FDK and DON
Reduction of %FDK over competitors by 19%.
Reduction of PPM DON over competitors by 24%.
Syngenta small plot and field scale trials in Western Canada in 2020-2022. n = 43
Selecting the right tools, applied at the right time throughout the season means cereals can finish strong and farmers can reap the rewards of higher yield achievement.
1 https://mbcropalliance.ca/directory/production-resources/lodging-in-spring-cereals/
2Performance evaluations are based on internal trials, field observations and/or public information. Data from multiple locations and years should be consulted whenever possible. Individual results may vary depending on local growing, soil and weather conditions.
Always read and follow label directions. Miravis® Neo refers to Miravis® Neo 300SE fungicide. ADEPIDYN®, Moddus®, Miravis® and the Syngenta logo are trademarks of a Syngenta Group Company. © 2024 Syngenta.
