[Scene opens with a shot of a hand examining a soybean plant with the Soy Masters badge and “Managing Sudden Death Syndrome“ overlaid on it. Guitar music plays in the background. The shot switches to include two photos of soy plants experiencing symptoms of sudden death syndrome overlaid on the original shot. Scene switches to Shawn Brenneman (Agronomic Sales Representative) standing in freshly planted soybean field, speaking to camera.]
SHAWN: My name's Shawn Brenneman. I'm an Agronomic Sales Rep with Syngenta in Southwestern Ontario and we're here in a soybean field which was just planted in the last week and as these beans start to emerge very shortly.
[Scene switches to closeup shot of rows of young soybean plants. Scene switches to a closeup pan of soybean plants from ground level. Scene switches back to Shawn standing in the field speaking to the camera]
SHAWN: And over the next seven weeks or so they're gonna be at risk for one of the major soybean diseases in Ontario. And that's sudden death syndrome or SDS. 
[Scene switches to a shot of a soybean plant exhibiting symptoms of disease, and then another. Scene switches back to Shawn standing in the field speaking to the camera. Scene switches to a shot of a row of young soybean plants]
SHAWN: SDS is caused by a fusarium species, in particular Fusarium virguliforme, and it loves cold wet environments so the wetter the spring is the more at risk these plants are. Even though that infection takes place early on in the soybeans life cycle we typically don't see the above-ground symptoms until later in July/August when all the sudden that plant starts to switch from more vegetative growth to reproductive growth. 
[Scene switches to a ground shot with the camera moving between rows of soybean plants. Scene switches back to Shawn speaking to the camera in a field. Scene cycles through 3 shots of diseased soybean plant before switching back to Shawn.]
SHAWN: Its natural defenses are down at that time and the disease, which is in the roots, produces a toxin and that toxin is then translocated up to the leaves and we see the visual symptoms of that toxin being expressed in the leaves. Usually it starts as yellowing turns to inter-veinal chlorosis those leaves will drop and the petiole still attaches to the stem so those are some clear signs you've got SDS in the field. What can we do about it? 
[While Shawn is speaking, text appears on-screen “Tillage”, “Drainage”, “Strong rotations”]
SHAWN: There's a number of things, because SDS loves that wet environment: drainage, tillage, anything we can do to reduce that free flowing water is going to help control SDS. We can look at long term rotations. It can also survive on corn stubble so we want to make sure we've got some wheat in there three years or greater for rotation. Seed treatments, Syngenta has a number of great seed treatments for both sudden death syndrome which is Mertect as well as for SCN (soybean cyst nematode). 
[Scene switches to a shot of diseased soybean plants in test field. Scene switches back to Shawn in the field speaking to the camera. Text appears on screen as Shawn speaks: “Genetics”.] 
SHAWN: And that's our Clariva product so controlling all those pests will help limit SDS. But last and best is really around the genetic tolerance and resistance and at Syngenta. We test our soybean varieties whether it's conventional or Extend products for multiple years in high SDS environments to make sure that we're selecting and bringing forward the products which have the right amount of tolerance that growers in southwestern Ontario need.
[Scene switches to a shot of a hand examining a soybean plant with the Soy Masters badge and “Managing Sudden Death Syndrome“ overlaid on it. Guitar music plays in the background. Screen switches to white and text reads: “For more information, visit Syngenta.ca or contact our Customer Interaction Centre at 1-87-SYNGENTA (1-877-964-3682).]