[Scene opens with shot of soybean field with text overlaid “Why early-season soybean weed control matters”. Guitar music plays in the background. Scene switches to Shawn Brenneman (Agronomic Sales Representative at Syngenta) and Tony Balkwill (Independent Agronomy Specialist from NirthField Advanced Agronomy) standing in front of a soybean field, speaking to the camera.]
SHAWN: Good morning I'm Shawn Brenneman (Agronomic Sales Representative at Syngenta) and I'm pleased to be here today with Tony Balkwill from Nithfield Agronomy and Research. And today we're going to talk a little bit about some of the issues and challenges that his customers are having out in the field and what we can do about it. Thanks for being here Tony. 
TONY: Thank you. 
SHAWN: Tony, there's been a lot of work done in the last number of decades about the importance of that early season weed control in corn and I know just recently Clarence Swanton and others have done a lot of work on what the importance of controlling weeds in soybeans means to that plant. What have you seen or what is some of the research that you've read on that topic? 
TONY: Yeah so similar to corn there's a critical weed free period that needs to be established. Using products like Boundary and multiple mode of actions give you some flexibility with establishing that weed free period. But also just the competition where you can actually cause issues with delayed nodulation and that bean competition where you get over succulent bean and it fights for height and light interception. Versus proper nodulation or proper architecture establishing a healthy bean plant. 
SHAWN: Its sacrificing the roots. 
TONY: It's a re-diversion of energy into survival versus sustainability. 
SHAWN: And if all the sudden we get some early season stresses or anything else then it probably just enhances that stress on that plant overall. 
TONY: Absolutely and if you look at the root mass of a soybean plant, its got a limited capacity for moisture. And there's a domino effect of having weeds at the wrong time where you can cause just germination. Weeds will take more water. Go plant some beans into dry ground. So our customers and ourselves strive to have a weed free planting bed or weed free period when we plant. And we just try to keep it that way all year. 
SHAWN: Yeah someone once said to me, “That field’s got an actual yield potential and it’s whether the crops going to yield or the weeds.” And I think at the end of the day we want the crop to yield most of all. 
TONY: Yep and that's another shift of weed management where we've seen better successes on having the traditional effect of planting into a no-till field would have perennials and other weeds in there. A little trick: go to those spots you can dig them up, they're dry. A dandelion drinks a lot of water.
SHAWN: Yes it does.
TONY: And you go put 10 soybeans beside it, that dandelion is going to win for quite a while. So if were shifting into singulation and every bean counts, it starts with a clean field - putting that bean into a clean field. 
[Scene switches to shot of soybean field. Guitar music plays in the background. Scene switches to a white screen. Text reads: “For more information, visit syngenta.ca or contact our Customer Interaction Centre at 1-87-Syngenta (1-877-964-3682).”]