[Scene opens with a shot of a hand examining a soybean plant. Text overlaid “Controlling Disease In Crop”. Guitar music plays in the background. Scene switches to Eric Richter (Agronomic Service Manager) standing in a soybean field speaking to the camera.]
ERIC: Hello, my name is Eric Richter, Agronomic Service Manager for seeds with Syngenta Canada. Today I'd like to talk with you about the impact that in-crop soybean diseases ultimately have on your yield and of course profitability. 
[Scene switches to shot scanning diseased soybean plants with close up photo overlaid showing what Sudden Death Syndrome looks like. Text overlaid “Sudden Death Syndrome”. Scene switches to a shot of a diseased soybean field with a close up photo overlaid showing what White Mould looks like. Text overlaid “White Mould”. Scene switches back to Eric standing in the field speaking to the camera. Text flies in and displays “Genetics, Cultural Practices, Seed and seed treatment, Fungicides.] 
ERIC: It is interesting though in terms of managing for in-crop disease, we encourage growers to back that up in the planning process well before they have planted their crop. There's a number of areas we want to focus on. There's 4 pillars. They would include genetics, they'd include cultural practices which I'll talk about. They also include the seed, seed treatment and finally fungicides. First with genetics, I think it's a long-standing best management practice that we've recommended as a company, to spend the time to get that best fit, the best variety in terms of disease management and the reason that this is so important, it really is the first line of defence. The varieties will have either resistance or tolerance to some of these diseases. 
[Scene switches to shot of Syngenta test field. Scene switches to shot of Eric holding soybean leaves. Scene switches to Eric standing in the field speaking to the camera. Eric bends down to dig seedlings out of the ground to show the camera. Scene switches back to Eric speaking to the camera. Text overlays appear: “Rotation”, “Fertility”, “Population”, “Fungicides”. Scene scans a soybean row before switching back to Eric speaking to the camera.]
ERIC: And at Syngenta we've worked very hard to categorize and to rate our varieties for tolerances, or as I say resistance to diseases like sudden death syndrome or white mould tolerance. The other area is the seed itself. A number of the soybean diseases can be transmitted on the seed. It's important to use certified seed, clean seed, and treated seed with a fungicide. That will really again give you critical protection and cut that disease cycle in your new crop. The other area I mentioned was cultural practices. There's three components here. Rotation would be one - really good rotations lengthening the time where soybeans are planted in that rotation - will help lower the disease incidence, or lower the disease inoculum. Again best management practice. Another area is fertility in terms of cultural practices. Start strong, stay strong, help that plant in its natural immune system protect itself against diseases. So fertility very critical. But the third one and we've talked about this one a little bit already, is managing population getting the ideal population to optimize canopy. We don't want too much vegetative growth. We want to really find that ideal spot between vegetative growth and reproductive growth and that in turn will minimize some of the disease potential. The other one, that fourth one, is in crop with fungicides. It goes without saying I think growers need to understand that as they climb up the yield curve, higher yields invariably creates environments that are more conducive to diseases. We've got the disease triangle. 
[Scene shows Eric speaking to the camera while a triangle graphic appears showing the relationship between Pathogen, Host (the crop), and the environment. Scene switches to pan of young soybean plants from ground view before switching back to Eric speaking to the camera. Text overlay displays bulleted list: “Genetics, Cultural Practices, Seed and seed treatment, Fungicides”.]
ERIC: We've got that pathogen, the host, the crop and we've got the environment. And as we grow better crops of soybeans, invariably there is that risk of soybean diseases in-crop increasing. What we want to do is help growers understand that in high yield there's high risk with disease. Fungicides is your last line of defence. Whether it be Allegro as a white mould specialist or Trivapro as a broad spectrum. Areas where we know we've got a high risk of disease that use of fungicide can really help increase yields and maximize profitability at a really good return on investment. So those would be the areas we'd encourage growers to focus on for in-crop disease management. We want to be a little more proactive than reactive and at the end of the day help the grower grow the best crop of soybeans. 
[Scene switches to a shot of a hand examining a soybean plant. Text overlaid “Controlling Disease In Crop”. Guitar music plays in the background.]