[Scene opens with a shot of young soybean rows with the Soy Masters badge overlaid on it. Guitar music plays in the background. Scene switches to Doug standing in a field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: Hi, my name is Doug Fotheringham. I'm an agronomic service rep for Syngenta based out of south-central Manitoba.
[Scene switches to two very close-up shot of soybeans just emerging out of the soil.]
DOUG: Fertility management in soybeans is extremely important. I think quite often it gets overlooked when we are choosing our ground for for soybeans.
[Scene switches back to Doug standing in the field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: It's one of the things that gets a crop off to the right start. But it's also important to have that fertility on the back-end because once the soybean crop starts setting seed, that's when that nutrient requirement really, really ramps up. So we have to make sure that we have the right nutrients in place. And the big hitters for soybeans is obviously nitrogen. But we're inoculating for that. And it's extremely important that we have the right inoculant in the right place to ensure proper nodulation. 2017 is a good example of that where we had a fairly cool and dry spring, and nodulation was actually a little bit delayed for the most part. And we've seen some yellowing crops out here. Had we not had the properly inoculant in place, we would have seen the crop continue to deteriorate. But we've seen it come around now because nodulation hastaken off here now that the weather has gotten warmer and we've received some moisture. So really, really important to make sure that you have your inoculant in the right place. It's nothing for a soybean crop to chew through 30 plus pounds of phosphorus in a season, and most of that is removed. The majority of that is taken off with the seed. And same with potash, but the potash requirements are actually even higher - around 60 pounds. I'm talking in and around a 40 bushel  soybean crop when I'm referencing those numbers. And again, that potash is going to be mostly removed with that seed. So we need to keep that in mind when we're planning our fertility prior to a soybean crop and after when we're going to be planting our next crop in behind it.
[Scene changes to a shot of rows of soybeans blowing in the wind. Guitar music plays in the background. The scene switches to the Soy Masters badge and says "For more information, visit syngenta.ca or call our Customer Interaction Centre at 1-87-SYNGENTA (1-877-964-3682)".]