[Scene opens with a close-up shot of soybeans with the Soy Masters badge overlaid on it. Guitar music plays and fades out. The scene switches Doug standing in a field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: Hi my name is Doug Fotheringham. I'm an agronomic service rep for Syngenta based out of south-central Manitoba.
[Scene shows a pan across a large soybean field.]
DOUG: Growers are often asking where they insert their soybeans in terms of their rotation and the obvious one is in behind cereals.
[Scene switches back to Eric in the field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: Wheat, barley, oats is obviously a good option and it's from a disease perspective, but it's also there's other benefits there as well. The organic matter that cereals return back to the ground is beneficial to a soybean crop.
[Scene switches to a closer up shot of young soy plants blowing in the wind.]
DOUG: Soybeans really do respond to organic matter in a soil profile.
[Scene switches back to Eric in the field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: So that is one of the main reasons why we encourage that.
[Scene switches to a row of young soybeans. Another shot shows trash in the row.]
DOUG: Corn is another one, although when we are dealing with corn obviously trash management on the corn side of things becomes extremely important.
[Scene switches back to Eric in the field, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: And the other thing we want to manage, for sure, when we're planting soybeans into corn is just to kind of try to avoid planting soybeans on top of a corn row. When we do that, we quite often have poor emergence on those rows which obviously limits our yield potential there. I guess the other big one too would be canola. Obviously in Western Canada, canola is a staple crop here and I think actually here in 2017 it's the largest seeded crop in Western Canada. So how do we put soybeans within that? And more often than not I would recommend that you don't do that from a disease perspective. There's some issues there - things like rhizoc and white mould crossover between the two crops and so something that we really want to watch for. But economics drive decisions and sometimes just the way the season goes we got to make a decision to put a soybean crop in behind canola and and we can do so. Nut when we do that we want to make sure that we're putting the right practices in place to manage that, so quite oftn a light tillage behind canola does help. It helps reduce some of the soil-borne diseases that we would deal with that would cross over into soybeans. White mould is going to be a potential issue and so when we're looking at that we want to manage what variety we're gonna select for soybeans, our plant populations, and our planting dates. So quite often when we have a canola crop and we plant soybeans in behind, the earlier the seeding date we have, the more potential that we would have for white mould in that soybean crop. So we want to manage your planting date a little bit there. So those are just a few things to kind of consider. It's not a hard "no", but you know there are some definite watch outs when we're doing that.
[Scene changes to a shot of wind blowing through a soybean field. 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)".]