Syngenta Seed Crop ‘Outstanding’
November 20, 2007 The fall harvest is just the beginning for the seed companies that support your grower-customers, including Syngenta. What can your growers expect from Syngenta’s various seed outlets?
"The seed production fields Syngenta is harvesting now will be processed, bagged, and headed back out to farmers in a matter of weeks so they’ll be ready to plant next spring," explains Chuck Lee, head of corn marketing for Syngenta. "Fortunately, it’s been an outstanding crop this year so there should be ample supplies of Garst, NK, and Golden Harvest seeds for farmers next year."
Lee adds that the vast majority of the of corn seed being processed for 2008 planting contains stacked traits. These include Agrisure 3000GT, Syngenta’s new quad stack that protects the corn crop against both corn borer and corn rootworm, while providing tolerance to in-season applications of both glyphosate and Liberty herbicides.
"The 2007 seed crop is the largest ever produced by Syngenta and is of exceptional quality despite spotty weather conditions across the Midwest," says Mike Hollands, vice president of corn and soybean supply for Syngenta. "We are harvesting and conditioning record volumes of seed and shipping larger orders to more customers in a timely manner."
The company recently invested more than $25 million in its seed supply facilities in Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois, and those investments are paying off now with capacity to dry and process larger volumes of seed faster.
Syngenta is working equally hard to provide ample supplies of top quality soybean seed, according to Gene Kassmeyer, head of soybean marketing for Syngenta Seeds. "Despite localized environmental conditions, we have high-quality soybean seed for the many new NK Brand soybeans we have available for 2008. The fact that Syngenta produces seed across a wide geography minimizes the effect of localized weather conditions on seed supply."
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