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Including soybeans in crop rotation provides advantages

2013-09-25 20:35:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Rotation advantages include better corn rootworm management, higher corn yields. Corn rootworms in this longtime continuous-corn field seem to have become immune to the Cry3Bb1 trait, the most common source of transgenic rootworm protection, says Keith Schrader, who farms with his sons near Nerstrand, Minn. In 2011, YieldGard VT Triple knocked out just 25% of corn rootworms in this field, compared to an expected kill rate of more than 95% in fields where the trait works, says Ken Ostlie, University of Minnesota Extension entomologist. read more

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