Soybean varieties

Bayer CropScience and MS Technologies LLC recently announced plans to market a new soybean trait called BalanceTM GT (Event FG72), a dual herbicide tolerant trait stack featuring tolerance to both glyphosate and isoxaflutole. Bayer CropScience and MS Technologies intend to broadly license Balance GT soybeans. Balance GT soybeans will be available in high-yielding genetics in many maturity groups in the US in 2015, pending regulatory approvals....More

A dry year like 2012 is the perfect year to test any new products being released to control soybean cyst nematode (SCN), according to industry experts. Luckily, two new nematicidal products are being tested this year that currently show promise in protecting roots from early-season SCN root feeding....More

The next generation of insect-control traits from the seed corn industry will help growers deter yield loss, particularly from corn rootworm feeding. “Historically, the main pests in corn have been corn rootworm and European corn borer,” says Clint Pilcher, DuPont Pioneer scientific affairs director. “Corn borers are not extinct, but we have seen a significant decrease in their overall population levels across the Corn Belt in recent years with increased use of Bt corn hybrids....More

November 2012 soybean futures reached a high of $14 in September 2011, declined to about $11.20 in December 2011, rebounded to almost $14 in early April and again in early May 2012, and traded to a low of $12.45 in the current trading session. The wide price swings reflect ever–changing supply and demand expectations....More