Monsanto: Roundup Ready PLUS® Crop Management Solutions platform

Since 2011, corn, soybean and cotton growers looking for recommendations on weed management practices – and incentives to implement a diversified weed management program on their fields – have found them, along with industry-leading education programs, in the Roundup Ready PLUS® Crop Management Solutions platform. As Roundup Ready PLUS enters its fifth growing season, Monsanto is diversifying the range of tools available to farmers to protect their crops from yield-robbing weeds and insects.

 

“Last year, over 60,000 farmers participated in Roundup Ready PLUS,” said Chris Reat, Roundup Ready PLUS Marketing Manager. “A key piece of feedback from growers was their desire to access a whole-farm set of solutions for weed and insect management. With this expansion, we will be able to provide tools to help farmers manage those pests.”

 

The new name of the platform – Roundup Ready PLUS Crop Management Solutions – builds upon solutions for weed management that are core to the platform and reflects the new, broader scope of recommendations and products available to growers. 

 

New for the 2015 growing season, Rowel™ and Rowel™ FX herbicides from Monsanto provide cotton and soybean growers consistent weed control on tough-to-control large- and small-seeded broadleaf weeds.

 

Complementing traits in seeds, Monsanto has provided insect protection technologies since 2008 through Acceleron® Seed Treatment Products. In 2015, insect management options will expand with the addition of Precept™ insecticide, a soil-applied insecticide in a granular formulation that offers broad spectrum control of soil-borne insect pests such as wireworm, white grubs, corn rootworm, seed corn maggot and black cutworm.

 

 “Monsanto is focused on offering a broad choice of products and traits that control key pests and insects for our customers,” said Phoong Tang, Monsanto’s U.S. Crop Protection Lead. “While we will continue to bring new traits to the market to help control insect and pests, we are always looking for additional tools to help farmers maximize yield potential in corn, soybeans and cotton.”