Fungicide applications are often overlooked in the absence of disease pressure, especially in soybeans.

This soybean's field demonstrates the importance of maintaining plant health as disease pressure wasn’t present in this example. Initially, after looking at NDVI and walking this field of Hoegemeyer soybeans, we did not see any need to apply insecticide or fungicide to boost the success of this field. However, we applied RevytekTM and Fastac CS® at R3.

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Revytek, from BASF, contains three active ingredients providing prevention similar to Priaxor and curative trails that provide action against resistant fungi as well as longer residual. We are excited about the results we see with Revytek. It pushes

soybeans beyond just preventing disease pressure and into providing plant health by reducing stress.

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This case study is just one example of how the Plant Health Challenge (PHC) is positively impacting grower's operations and allowing them to trial products they otherwise may not have. It demonstrates a case with no disease pressure, no insect pressure and mediocre soybean prices. The application of Revytek and Fastac CS gave this field an extra boost to perform.

 

As we scouted this field around harvest time we had a good indication that we would see strong results. Once we began to process the yield data from this PHC trial, the PHC cooperator recorded an 11.17-bushel increase. When we take the local harvest price of $10.55 and the $32.82 cost of treatment into our ROI calculations, the farmer saw a return of $85.02/acre or an ROI of 259.06%