Soybean Seed Selection
Many factors should be considered when choosing soybean seed, such as management practices, environmental conditions and local trial evaluations. When it comes to planning soybean crop management, selecting and positioning multiple soybean seed varieties suited to specific conditions can help optimize performance of your soybean seeds. Evaluating your farm’s data with Climate FieldView™ can help inform your management decisions and fine-tune next season’s planning, ensuring you get the most out of every acre.
Trait Benefits and Weed Management
Choosing a high-yielding soybean trait package with both weed control and disease tolerance is key. Asgrow® brand XtendFlex® soybean seed not only provide a powerful combination of exclusive genetics and strong agronomic traits designed to promote excellent emergence, pod development, plant health and high-yield performance, but also allow for weed-management ease and flexibility.
Controlling weeds in soybeans has become more challenging due to herbicide resistance, tighter restrictions and difficult-to-control weeds. A multipronged approach that focuses more on a weed management strategy is required to help achieve consistent, long-term success. For no-till systems, starting with a fall burndown program is encouraged. With all herbicide programs, using pre- and post-emergent residuals can help reduce pressure on contact herbicide products. The key is to prevent as many weeds as possible from emerging and becoming competition to the crop.
Planting Early
Planting soybeans early extends the growing season, which can enhance photosynthetic activity and potentially boost yields. While early planting offers higher yield potential, it also increases the risk of diseases and pests that thrive in cool, wet soil conditions. Additionally, cold temperatures can delay germination and emergence, leaving soybeans in a vulnerable state for an extended period. If you’re considering early planting, it’s recommended to use a system that combines Asgrow germplasm with disease tolerance, along with Acceleron® Seed Applied Solutions fungicide and insecticide for sudden death syndrome (SDS), plus ILEVO® seed treatment. This combination of high-quality seed, strong genetics and effective seed treatments helps ensure a strong start to the season and supports higher yield potential.
Disease and Pests
Wet and cold conditions are common early in the season, and Acceleron Seed Applied Solutions seed treatment packages can help protect the yield potential of Asgrow soybeans from yield-robbing pests and disease.
Acceleron Seed Applied Solutions seed treatment provides broad-spectrum protection against seedling diseases, including Pythium, early-season Phytophthora, Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium, with an exclusive combination of fungicides and more rapid and increased emergence of seedlings under certain cold conditions. SDS is a disease that can greatly diminish yield potential, but incorporating Acceleron Seed Applied Solutions with ILEVO can help manage the disease.
Another devastating disease that thrives in wet soil conditions is white mold. If you have a history of this disease on your farm, choosing an Asgrow variety with improved tolerance can help protect yield potential. The Asgrow brand also has varieties with tolerance to other top yield-robbing soybean diseases, including Phytophthora, brown stem rot and iron deficiency chlorosis.
If you are fighting heavy soybean cyst nematode (SCN) pressure or detect their presence in your soil sampling, consider seed with the Peking resistance trait, a newer trait showing more resistance to SCN than PI 88788. Also consider ILEVO seed treatment, which offers protection from plant parasitic nematodes, including SCN, with additional protection against SDS.
Next-Generation Soybean Technology
The new Asgrow XtendFlex XF5 product class for 2025 has demonstrated impressive yield potential and strong agronomic characteristics. Designed to deliver consistent performance and high-yield potential to maximize ROI, the XF5 product portfolio is the best from Asgrow brand’s advanced breeding program and extensive testing network. The 2024 XtendFlex soybean launch class had a 2.7 Bu/A advantage vs. Enlist E3® soybeans.* Asgrow XtendFlex products are available across all seven maturity zones.
For more information, contact your local DEKALB® Asgrow seed dealer or visit Asgrow.com.
*9,759 head-to-head comparisons in Bayer’s 2023 breeding and market development germplasm trials v. key commercial E3® checks in major soybean growing regions +/- 0.2 RM. 64% win rate.
No dicamba may be used in-crop with seed with Roundup Ready® Xtend Technology, unless and until approved or specifically permitted, and no dicamba formulations are currently registered for such use in the 2025 season. Please follow www.roundupreadyxtend.com/pages/xtendimax-updates.aspx for status updates. Dicamba may harm crops that are not tolerant to dicamba.
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It is a violation of federal and state law to use any pesticide product other than in accordance with its labeling. NOT ALL formulations of dicamba or glyphosate are approved for in-crop use with Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® soybeans. NOT ALL formulations of dicamba, glyphosate or glufosinate are approved for in-crop use with products with XtendFlex® Technology. ONLY USE FORMULATIONS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY LABELED FOR SUCH USES AND APPROVED FOR SUCH USE IN THE STATE OF APPLICATION. Contact the U.S. EPA and your state pesticide regulatory agency with any questions about the approval status of dicamba herbicide products for in-crop use with products with XtendFlex® Technology.
FOR SOYBEAN SEED TREATMENT PRODUCTS APPLIED DOWNSTREAM, EACH ACCELERON® SOLUTIONS OFFERING is a combination of separate individually registered products containing the active ingredients: BASIC Offering: metalaxyl, penflufen, and prothioconazole. STANDARD Offering: metalaxyl, penflufen, prothioconazole, and imidacloprid. FOR UPSTREAM TREATED SOYBEANS, EACH ACCELERON® SOLUTIONS OFFERING is a combination of separate individually registered products containing the active ingredients: BASIC Offering: metalaxyl, penflufen, and prothioconazole. STANDARD Offering: metalaxyl, penflufen, prothioconazole, and imidacloprid.
Performance may vary, from location to location and from year to year, as local growing, soil and environmental conditions may vary. Growers should evaluate data from multiple locations and years whenever possible and should consider the impacts of these conditions on their growing environment.
The recommendations in this material are based upon trial observations and feedback received from a limited number of growers and growing environments. These recommendations should be considered as one reference point and should not be substituted for the professional opinion of agronomists, entomologists or other relevant experts evaluating specific conditions.
ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW IRM, WHERE APPLICABLE, GRAIN MARKETING AND ALL OTHER STEWARDSHIP PRACTICES AND PESTICIDE LABEL DIRECTIONS. Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® soybeans contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate and dicamba. Products with XtendFlex® Technology contains genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate, glufosinate and dicamba. Plants that are not tolerant to glyphosate may be damaged or killed if exposed to those herbicides. Plants that are not tolerant to glyphosate, dicamba, and/or glufosinate may be damaged or killed if exposed to those herbicides. Plants that are not tolerant to dicamba may be damaged or killed if exposed to those herbicides. Contact your seed brand dealer or refer to the Bayer Technology Use Guide for recommended weed control programs.
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