Monday - June 25, 2012
2012 ISF World Seed Congress in Rio de Janeiro:
Bayer CropScience presents a unique combination of seed treatment products, film coatings, machinery and modern seeds
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Powerful global product portfolio strengthened with Emesto™ and Evergol™
Following the successful launch of Poncho™/Votivo™ into corn, cotton and soybeans in the United States, Bayer CropScience continues to offer growers further tailor-made solutions. Emesto™ represents a new seed treatment generation to increase plant health and yield potential of potatoes. It helps potato growers to control tuber-borne diseases, e.g. silver scab (Helminthosporium) and dry rot (Fusarium) as well as soil-borne diseases such as black scurf (Rhizoctonia). In 2012, Emesto™ received registrations in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and in the Ukraine.
Black scurf is also an important disease in canola. EverGol™, Bayer CropScience´s newest seed treatment fungicide family has been recently granted its first regulatory approval worldwide in Canada and will be available for the 2012 planting season. Seeds treated with EverGol™ are fitter resulting in better crop establishment, a prerequisite for higher yields. Bayer CropScience is developing customer-oriented solutions on the basis of EverGol™ for various broad acre crops such as soybeans, corn, cereals, cotton and rice.
Peridiam™ film coatings for enhanced crop growth
Bayer CropScience Cérès is one of the world´s leading providers of advanced seed technology. It offers an extensive portfolio of film coatings and fluency powders, pelleting processes and services to seed companies. Film coatings marketed globally under the brand name Peridiam™ enhance the performance of seed treatments. Peridiam™ improves the coverage around the seed, increases flowability and plantability of treated seeds. Furthermore, Bayer CropScience Cérès offers customers pelleting expertise, latest technologies and methods for seed germination, plant emergence and vigor, as well as other kinds of plant physiology tests. This includes methods of analyzing seed treatment quality, flowability and abrasion tests, and evaluation of dust formation in treated seeds.
Global network of 10 service centers
Bayer CropScience is constantly expanding its global network of service centers for seed treatment. Today, the company is operating 10 Seed Treatment Application Centers (STAC) around the world. The services range from training on the correct application of seed treatment products, development of customized treatment recipes and advice on machinery to seed treatment processes. In Latin America, customers benefit from STACs in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico where Bayer CropScience experts optimize new formulations and adapt seed treatment solutions to local conditions. To protect their seeds against insects and fungal diseases and to achieve higher crop yield potential, the STAC specialists provide farmers, breeders and seed companies all necessary technical support and expertise.
Customized Gustafson application equipment
Gustafson, Bayer CropScience´s equipment brand, is known worldwide for the high quality of its application equipment designed to meet specific customer needs. The equipment consists of five process components: storage and transfer, delivery and metering of seeds, delivery and application of treatment, mixing and blending and dust containment. Based on its state-of the-art technologies, Bayer is offering customer’s application machinery which helps making treating seeds a safe, cost-effective and efficient business.
Improved varieties and a strong seeds & traits pipeline
In addition, Bayer CropScience is dedicated to bringing best-in-class seed varieties that enhance productivity and profit potential for farmers in important crops such as oilseed rape/canola, cotton, soybeans, rice, wheat and vegetables.
InVigor™ hybrid canola has consistently delivered the highest yielding and highest quality canola on the North American market. Bayer CropScience is also able to offer European farmers in 17 countries high-quality hybrid and open pollinated lines of oilseed rape. Cotton growers, especially in Latin America, benefit from FiberMax™ seeds with Stoneville™ and Surpass™ completing Bayer CropScience´s leading global cottonseed portfolio further distinguished by extensive value adding traits for weed and pest control. To help US farmers grow high-yielding soybeans, control weeds and manage weed resistance, HBK™ soybean seeds are sustainable and profitable solutions. Arize™, Bayer CropScience´s global hybrid rice seed, has proven to yield around 20 percent more than the best semi-dwarf inbred varieties.
And with an extensive range of 28 crops and some 2,500 varieties of Nunhems™ brand vegetable seed, serviced by 26 breeding stations in 14 countries, Bayer CropScience is already present in all major vegetable production areas in the world.
Bayer CropSciene also invests significantly in wheat seeds & traits to address the productivity challenge. The goal is to develop a leading global wheat seed business building on a broad germplasm base with local variety development and a value adding trait portfolio with focus on sustainable agronomic performance.
About Bayer CropScience
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience, a subgroup of Bayer AG with annual sales of EUR 7.255 billion (2011), is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and traits. The company offers an outstanding range of products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer CropScience has a global workforce of 21,000 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at: www.press.bayercropscience.com.
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