[Scene opens with a close-up shot of emerging soybeans with the Soy Masters badge overlaid on it. Guitar music plays and fades out. The scene switches to Eric kneeling in a field, speaking to the camera.]
ERIC: The fourth component of soybean stand assessment is really looking at the uniformity of emergence. This is really critical, in the sense that planting depth has a big impact on this. We want all of the soybean seedlings to come up at the same time.
[Scene quickly switches to a close-up shot of emerging soybeans, then switches back to Eric in the field speaking to the camera in front of flags in the soil.]
ERIC: This, as I say, is impacted by uniformity of seeding depth. Our uniform depth will, in turn, shorten the emergence period and give every plant an opportunity to come up at roughly the same time. When we have variable planting depth, we start to extend the emergence period, and in turn, create an environment where not all plants are coming up at the same time, and we get what is called the "runt syndrome". The plants that come up later will always be challenged to reach their genetic potential. We can show this with the flag emergence test. We've done this a number of years now in soybeans. I've just set this demonstration up here for the purpose of the video, but it really does clearly show in this scenario, planted just approximately seven days ago, we can show this variability in emergence. The first two up would be these orange ones.
[Scene shows very close-up shot of emerging soybeans, then goes back to Eric.]
ERIC: They, again, followed by roughly 48 hours later, we've got a set of pink flags here and here. Four here and two here. 
[Scene shows another very close-up shot of emerging soybeans, then goes back to Eric.]
ERIC: But what I really want to draw your attention to are the two that are flagged with the white flags at the - what we'll say are the emergence and cracking the ground stage.
[Scene switches to a close-up of the white flagged soybeans that are barely emerging.]
ERIC: These here are now, in this particular case, in the shadow of that plant that's come up at least 48 hours before.
[Scene goes back to Eric.]
ERIC: 48 hours, not too bad. In some scenarios, though, we've got plants coming up four or five, six, eight days later. And this runt syndrome is extremely obvious. It is not ideal. To maximize yield, grow the best crop of soybeans, we do want to have all of the seedlings coming up in - relatively speaking - a very short period of time. I encourage you as a grower to do the flag emergence test in your soybeans, and we're certainly there to help you in that exercise in determining your soybean stand assessment. Critical part - uniform emergence.
[Scene switches to Eric standing in a field of mature soybeans, holding some in his hand while he speaks to the camera.]
ERIC: We were talking about the importance of uniform emergence in soybeans. And what I want to do is fast forward through to the R5-R6 stage, and try to show you this runt syndrome, where we have a plant growing in the shadow of another earlier-emerging soybean plant.
[Scene switches to close-ups of the two different plants in each of Eric's hands. You can clearly see that the plant in his right hand has more pods. It then pans back out.]
ERIC: So, in my right hand, I've got this plant. This would be the plant that would've had the orange flag. This, in turn, would've been where we had flagged with the white flag. A difference in emergence, side-by-side, in the shadow of the earlier emerging plant, really becomes a runt. And this plant, of course, has no opportunity to truly reach genetic potential. Part of growing the best soybean crop is achieving uniform emergence so each and every plant can achieve its genetic potential.
[Scene changes to a close-up shot of an emerging soybean row. 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)".]