Agrisure Duracade
It’s good news for you and REALLY, REALLY bad news for rootworms.
Cleaner fields and higher yields are yours with Rob-See-Co and Agrisure Duracade.
The news is good for farmers and bad for pests. Rob-See-Co is bringing innovative new Agrisure Duracade-traited seed corn to growers with its unique expertise. Agrisure Duracade offers more control on more destructive above and below-ground insects.
Today, Rob-See-Co has one of the most robust selections of technology traits and genetics available like the Enlist™ E3 System and the LibertyLink® GT27™ System, along with Agrisure Duracade®, Agrisure Viptera® and Agrisure Artesian®.
The Ultimate Option For Insect Control, Simplicity and Choice
Agrisure Duracade® trait stacks offer the ultimate combination—the latest insect control traits in a wide choice of diverse, high-yielding elite genetics with a simple, 5% integrated E-Z Refuge® seed blend.
The Most Advanced Trait Stack On The Market
Offers premium, broad-spectrum insect control of 16 damaging insects to help preservegenetic yield potential and profitability
Combines the Agrisure Duracade and Agrisure® RW traits for dual modes of action against corn rootworm (CRW)
Features the Agrisure Viptera® trait, which offers market-leading above-ground insect control, and an additional mode of action against above-ground insects
Effective, Season-Long Control
Protects against above- and below-ground insects
Features two modes of action against CRW and corn borer
Rob-See-Co Business Associate, Todd Harmsen of Harmsen Seed, is seeing great results with an Agrisure Duracade product in central Iowa.
Other trait stacks come up short. Agrisure Duracade 5222 E-Z Refuge defends against:
Beet armyworm
Black cutworm
Common stalk borer
Corn earworm
Dingy cutworm
European corn borer
Fall armyworm
Lesser cornstalk borer
Mexican corn rootworm
Northern corn rootworm
Southern cornstalk borer
Southwestern corn borer
Sugarcane borer
True armyworm
Western bean cutworm
Western corn rootworm
CRW pressure can result in:
Underdeveloped root systems
Weak brace roots
Reduced nutrient uptake
Lodged or fallen corn
Clipped silks
Poor ear fill
Reduced pollination
Reduced yields and profits
Stand Up To Corn Rootworm
Corn rootworm (CRW) can eat into your profits. As the most destructive corn pest in the United States, CRW costs more than $1 billion annually in reduced grain yield and control measures. Fluctuating insect pressures and farming practices complicate control of the difficult-to-manage pest, making it important to be prepared at the start of each season. Once CRW feeding has occurred, plants are left vulnerable to disease, further damaging the crop, and leaving growers with fields that are tough to harvest, with low yields and reduced profits.
Agrisure Duracade trait stacks express a unique protein that binds differently in the gut of the CRW, providing effective control of western, northern and Mexican CRW. A USDA study showed the lowest level of adult corn rootworm beetle emergence in Agrisure Duracade fields compared to any other current corn rootworm trait on the market.
Agrisure Duracade trait stacks help hybrids develop a stronger, more robust root system that supplies optimal water and nutrient uptake. Stronger roots mean healthier plants that stand tall.
Advantage of planting a hybrid with Agrissure Duracade technology in fields where corn rootworms is expected
The graph above shows the overall advantage of dual mode of action corn rootworm traits compared to no corn rootworm and single mode of action trait packages in seven high pressure fields from 2017-18.
This graph shows the overall advantage of Duracade compared to no corn rootworm trait using matched isoline comparisons, and is from a 2018 strip trial with moderate corn rootworm damage (Duracade version versus the above ground only version of six different hybrids).
Check out the Agronomy Projects page for additional information on the Corn Rootworm Beetle Monitoring project Rob-see-Co Sales Reps conducted in 2018. It truly is the billion dollar pest and Agrisure Duracade hybrids are uniquely developed to tackle this problem.