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YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2

Features & Benefits | In-Plant Protection | Maximum Roots & Healthier Stalks | More Moisture & Nutrients | Weed Control | Convenience | Crop Safety | Yield Potential | Start Clean, Stay Clean™ | Related Resources

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Features & Benefits

It's the best of everything: maximum insect protection combined with proven crop safety and great weed control in the Roundup Ready® Corn 2 System. Even better, growing YieldGard® Plus Corn with Roundup Ready Corn 2 doesn't require different equipment or significantly different agronomic practices. It fits into how you already farm – with added profit potential and convenience. See for yourself why YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2 makes perfect profit sense. Plant it on your acres, and watch your potential grow.

Plant YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2.

It's the ultimate combination of maximum insect protection and unsurpassed weed control.

Maximum Insect Protection

YieldGard Plus protects against: Western Corn Rootworms • Northern Corn Rootworms • Mexican Corn Rootworms • European Corn Borers • Southwestern Corn Borers • Black Cutworms • Sugarcane Borers • Fall Armyworms • Stalk Borers • Wireworms • White Grubs • Seed Corn Maggots • Early Flea Beetles • Earworms

It's never been easier to find a buyer for your biotech grain.

More and more elevators buy all corn, all year long. Even if your local elevators didn't buy biotech grain before, it's worth checking again now.

To see which elevators near you buy grain from Roundup Ready Corn 2 and YieldGard Plus Corn:

• Talk to the grain handler • Call 1-866-SELLCORN • Visit 866sellcorn.com

In-Plant Protection

Effective, Consistent In-Plant Protection

YieldGard® Plus is the first corn technology to deliver whole-season, in-plant protection against European, southwestern and sugarcane borers as well as effective and consistent protection against western, northern and Mexican corn rootworms, for a zone of protection throughout the plant. YieldGard Plus also suppresses earworms, fall armyworms and stalk borers. Conventional corn is only protected where and when you apply insecticides. Smaller area. Smaller yield potential.

YieldGard Plus also offers in-the-bag protection against black cutworms, wireworms, white grubs, seed corn maggots and early flea beetles.

No seed treatment, soil insecticide or other technology protects your yield potential against more insects. And nothing gives you the maximum root health and stalk strength of YieldGard Plus.

Maximum Roots & Healthier Stalks

Maximum Roots Healthier Stalks

YieldGard® Plus protects both the roots and stalk from insect damage.

  • Protection is in the seed, so it's more effective and consistent than traditionally applied insecticide and seed treatment.

  • Protected roots reach full mass potential.

  • Stalks can stay healthy and strong – reduced lodging and ear drop.

The effective and consistent control of YieldGard Plus allows corn to develop a maximum root system.

The superior protection of YieldGard Plus allows corn to maintain a healthier stalk.

More Moisture & Nutrients

More Moisture More Nutrients

YieldGard® Plus with the Roundup Ready® Corn 2 System maximizes the amount of moisture and nutrients absorbed by the plant to help maximize yields.

  • Outstanding weed control reduces weed competition and leaves more moisture and nutrients for the corn.

  • Fuller roots have more mass to absorb moisture and nutrients.

  • Healthier stalks can better transport moisture and nutrients.

  • Proven crop safety of Roundup WeatherMAX® enables moisture and nutrients to reach undamaged leaves.

A larger root system and a healthier stalk enable the corn plant to utilize more nutrients and moisture to produce higher yields.

Weed Control

Broad-Spectrum Weed Control

When you start clean and stay clean, the Roundup Ready® Corn 2 System is maximum broad-spectrum weed control. It's the best way to kill weeds the entire season, year after year. By wiping out weeds throughout the season, you'll prevent them from setting seed. And with no seeds, you mimimize the risk of weed resistance.

Start Clean: Add a preemergence residual.

  • A Roundup Ready residual rate of a Harness® or Degree® brand (approximately 2/3 of the average residual rate) is all you need.

  • Early-season weed control is critical to maximizing yield potential.

  • It reduces weeds to reduce the weed seed bank.

  • It gives you better flexibility for maximum weed control – pre to late-post.

Stay Clean: Use the right rate at the right time.

  • Timely applications and the appropriate rate of Roundup WeatherMAX® or Roundup PowerMAX™ will give you unsurpassed broad-spectrum weed control.

  • Because Roundup WeatherMAX and Roundup PowerMAX herbicides are so effective, it may be the only postemergence product you need.

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Convenience

Convenience and Application Flexibility

The convenience of YieldGard® Plus stacked with Roundup Ready® Corn 2 really adds up.

For YieldGard Plus you get:

  • Less insecticide handling.

  • Less time spent scouting for damage.

  • More efficient harvest due to reduced lodging.

The Roundup Ready Corn 2 System has flexibility built right in:

  • Starting clean with a residual increases your flexibility for maximum weed control and helps you manage around the weather.

  • In general, weed flushes should be controlled before they exceed 4 inches in height. However, if the weather doesn't cooperate, Roundup WeatherMAX™ gives you a wider window of application – up to 20-inch weed height – than other postemergence herbicides.

  • Opportunity to control late annual weed flushes.

Crop Safety

Outstanding Crop Safety

The Roundup Ready® Corn 2 System delivers proven crop safety – and peace of mind. In four years of field trials, lowering the risk of crop injury delivered up to 6.5 bushels an acre more than conventional corn herbicide programs.

  • Because Roundup Ready Corn 2 was specifically designed for Roundup agricultural herbicides, you can get superior crop safety compared with other nonglyphosate postemergence herbicides.

  • The Roundup Ready Corn 2 System can reduce potential yield loss from crop injury.

  • Grower on-farm trials have shown that using Roundup agricultural herbicides with built-in crop safety on Roundup Ready Corn 2 can yield up to 6.5 bushels per acre more than certain other herbicide programs (applied over the same Roundup Ready hybrid).

  • The Roundup Ready program, using the same hybrids for all programs, outyielded other programs in 73% of trials.

Roundup agricultural herbicides vs. other postemergence herbicides on Roundup Ready Corn and Roundup Ready Corn 2.

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Yield Potential & Protection

Yield Potential Yield Protection

YieldGard® Rootworm with the Roundup Ready® Corn 2 System maximizes yield potential.

Everyone has weed pressure, which makes Roundup Ready Corn 2 a natural. But for those who also have the added potential of insect damage, YieldGard Plus can help. Both technologies are proven to return more profit than conventional corn.

More Available Moisture and Nutrients + More Uptake + More Transported = More Yield Potential

Less Postemergence Herbicide Injury + Less Lodging + Less Ear Drop = More Yield Protected

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Start Clean, Stay Clean™

Maximize your weed control to minimize the risk of weed resistance.

You can use Roundup Ready® technology year after year while minimizing the risks of developing weed resistance. It's just a matter of following a few easy guidelines, such as starting clean using a residual herbicide and staying clean with Roundup agricultural herbicides.

  1. Use Roundup Ready technology as your foundation.

  2. Start clean and control weeds early.

  3. Add other herbicides and cultural practices where appropriate as part of the Roundup Ready System.

  4. Use the right rate of Roundup agricultural herbicide at the right time.

  5. Control weeds throughout the season and reduce the weed seed bank.

Report any repeated incidences of nonperformance to your local Monsanto retailer or call 1-800-ROUNDUP.

Facts about weed resistance and Roundup agricultural herbicides.

  1. Roundup agricultural herbicides have been on the market for 30 years and have been the most widely used herbicide in corn, soybeans and cotton for over eight years.

  2. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, has a unique mode of action and makes the chances of weed resistance to Roundup agricultural herbicide less likely than other chemistries.

  3. After nine years of commercial use in the United States, 12 weeds were resistant to the active ingredient in Pursuit®, while only two weeds have been confirmed resistant to glyphosate in Roundup Ready cropping areas.

  4. If signs of resistance should occur, options are available to manage effectively and economically. Tank mixes have provided effective and economical control of resistant weeds.

Dead weeds will not produce seed and become resistant.

For more information, see www.weedscience.org or www.weedresistancemanagement.com

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Always Read and Follow Pesticide Label Directions. Roundup Ready® crops contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup® agricultural herbicides. Roundup® agricultural herbicides will kill crops that do not contain a Roundup Ready® gene. Degree® and Harness® brands are restricted-use pesticides and are not registered in all states. The distribution, sale or use of an unregistered pesticide is a violation of federal and/or state law and is strictly prohibited. Check with your local Monsanto dealer or Monsanto representative for the product registration status in your state.

Pesticides registered by the U.S. EPA will not cause unreasonable adverse effects on man or the environment, when used in accordance with label directions. Required PPE equipment varies by product. See product label for specific equipment requirements. YieldGard Rootworm with Roundup Ready Corn 2 can be offered for sale in the states in which it is registered. Check with your Monsanto representative for state-specific status.

Degree®, Harness®, Roundup®, Roundup WeatherMAX®, Transorb®, Roundup PowerMAX™, Roundup Ready®, START CLEAN, STAY CLEAN™ and YieldGard®are trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.