[Scene opens with a shot of a soybean field with the Soy Masters badge overlaid on it. Guitar music plays in the background. Scene switches to Doug standing in a field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: Hi, my name is Doug Fotheringham. I'm an agronomic service rep for Syngenta basedout of south-central Manitoba.
[Scene shows rows of young soybean plants and zooms in for a close-up shot. It then pans out to a wide shot of the field.]
DOUG: One question I often receive is: what do I do with my plant stand after I've received a hail event? The initial assessment is quite often fairly scary.
[Scene switches to Doug standing in the field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: It's fairly crucial the time of year that it happens and so if it happens fairly early in the season, generally speaking, soybeans have the potential to recover from that. When soybeans are still in the vegetative state they still have the ability to put on new branches and that's why we see that recovery comeback.
[Scene shows a ground-level shot between rows of young soybeans. It then switches to a tight shot of older soy plants. Then it goes back to Doug in the field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: When we get a later season hail, when we're into that R stage and later on, they've already kind of decided basically what they're doing in terms of yield potential especially after R3.5 and so if we get hail after that stage sometimes we're limited on what we can do. If we're looking at an early season hail, you know if we're first to fifth trifoliate, patience is really the key there. Typically what a soybean plant will do is put on some new axillary stems from the axillary buds typically where the unifoliate are. It does have the ability to put on branches elsewhere too, but that's that's something that you would see typically from a bean crop. And the yield potential on that crop has has probably been slightly reduced but still decent yield potential there for sure.
[Scene switches to close-up shots of young soybean plants. They show the debris on the ground as well as examples of disease in the crop.]
DOUG: There isn't a lot that you do. You want
to understand how much defoliation that you that you have and try to get an
assessment on that. But now that we've got all that leaf material on the ground,
that's going to start decaying. And once you have that material underneath your
canopy, that promotes usually some some disease - white mould would be one of them.
[Scene switches back to Doug in the field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: You've also got a lot of open lesions on your on your stem and your leaves that would have the potential to introduce that disease into the plant. And so that is a time when a fungicide application may be warranted on a soybean crop, just to help suppress some of the disease that's building from underneath in the canopy and also to try to get a little bit of protection on those open lesions on the plant.
[Scene switches to show a field that is very young with debris in the rows. It then switches to a more mature field blowing in the wind, before going back to Doug.]
DOUG: More often than not, an early season hail event recovers fairly well. It's just a little bit more concerning when we get it in later season, and that's maybe when we can look at potentially putting on a fungicide to help minimize the amount of disease that's going to come into that plant.
[Scene changes to a shot of rows of soybeans blowing in the wind. 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)".]