[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 fifth component of soybean stand assessment is around what we'll call uniform spacing - singulation within the row. You may hear of the term "picket fence stands". We want to try to help the grower achieve picket fence soybean stands. And why is this important? It is really important, whether you're on narrow rows or wide rows, because we know that uniform canopy really is a critical component in determining yield, capturing sunshine, and turning that into bushels of soybeans. Whether you're in a narrow row or a wide row, it is important. So in a narrow row, what we want to try to do is work with growers to make sure they don't have any in-the-row gaps longer than two feet. If they're medium to wide rows, similar to here perhaps, where we've got a situation where we've got a gap of almost a foot in length, we would really like to see some more seedlings within here.
[Scene switches to close-up of the emerging row of soybeans with gaps present.]
ERIC: As you can see here with the pink flags in this demonstration we've set up for the video. These pink flags, that part of the row, beautiful.
[Scene switches to close-up of a uniform row of emerging soybeans.]
ERIC: We've got our picket fence stand of soybeans.
[Scene switches back to Eric kneeling in the field, speaking to the camera.]
ERIC: As we say, stand establishment does include singulation and this picket fence approach. Very critical in growing the best crop of soybeans.
[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)".]