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BACKING YOU WITH TAILOR-MADE AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS SEED YOUR SUCCESS IRRIGATION WHITE MAIZE Content DEKALB® Packaging pg 002 YELLOW MAIZE 00 01 Eastern Maize Region pg 007 – Yellow dry land East Use this guide with – White dry land East confidence for all – Yellow end of life hybrids your planning. – White end of life hybrids 02 Western Maize Region pg 031 – Yellow dry land West – White dry land West – Yellow end of life hybrids – White end of life hybrids 03 Irrigation Maize Region pg 055 – Yellow Irrigation 04 Smallholder Farming pg 067 – DEKALB® Packaging – Yellow smallholder – White smallholder 05 Bayer Crop Protection pg 085 06 Contact us pg 117 Bayer maize product guide 2021 | 1 YOUR SYSTEM All seed bags contain the following useful OF MAIZE SEED information to better understand and use SUPPORT DEKALB maize to seed your success: We offer farmers a wide range of maize Stewardship – Certification Scale indicates whether hybrids. We use our elite seed genetics and that the seed conforms to the bag has been opened a stewardship standard for and closed again. cutting-edge traits and technologies to create biotechnology traits. products that meet farmers’ wants and needs. These products are offered through the DEKALB® brand. Whether it’s combating insect Safety guidelines allow you to use the product pests, simplifying weed control, or simply to avoid harm to self, others and the planet. increasing productivity, farmers can rest assured they are getting the most out of every ® hectare with DEKALB . Getting the most out of Legal information including registration every hectare means farmers are feeding more number etc. of our growing population. Sticker with the hybrid’s name, hybrid’s number In today’s agricultural landscape, we and treatment details. understand the importance of making the Acceleron® seed most out of every kernel. That’s why each bag treatment logo. SEED YOUR SUCCESS of DEKALB® maize has been designed to help you create optimum harvests. Colour of bag for trait Our commercial bags are available in 80 000 kernel count identification. SANSOR seed certification – The and the producer can also choose from the following bag label shows that MAIZE Label at the This information is duplicated at the bottom types: stack gene, YieldGard® Maize 2, conventional, and the seed conforms to certain seed bottom of of the bag to enable reading of the hybrid Roundup Ready® Maize 2. The packaging, in addition to quality standards. the bag. identity when the bags are stacked. ensuring the safety and usability of the kernels, also form part of our DEKALB quality promise to you, our farmers. 2 | Bayer maize product guide 2021 Bayer maize product guide 2021 | 3 /// WHITE MAIZE ® - Blue What’s in NEW DEKALB - Roundup Ready® Maize 2 - YieldGard® Maize 2 PACKAGING - Acceleron® the bag? With the shift towards supplying seed in bulk, Bayer is also /// YELLOW MAIZE providing large commercial producers with their DEKALB - Blue STACKED TRAITS maize seed orders in bulk seed boxes for improved storage - Roundup Ready® Maize 2 and ease of use. When you compare the ease of handling - YieldGard® Maize 2 of the boxes to the conventional bags, there is almost no - Acceleron® MAIZE comparison. The seed boxes’ high strength and durable construction can carry loads of up to 1,25 ton. Multiple /// WHITE MAIZE containers also interlock when stacked or nested for safe, - Burgundy secure storage. - Roundup Ready® Maize 2 - Acceleron® Contrary to seed bags, seed boxes cannot easily be carried ROUNDUP READY® away. These seed boxes are easily handled and moved by /// YELLOW MAIZE forklift, which significantly reduces the need for manual MAIZE - Burgundy MAIZE 2 MAIZE labour to move bags of seed on the farm. Seed boxes also - Roundup Ready® Maize 2 protect the seeds from dirt, moisture, pests and theft. - Acceleron® Most of the DEKALB hybrid range is available in seed /// WHITE MAIZE boxes and each seed box contain 2.5-3.5 million kernels - Green depending o n seed size. The offering also includes a range - YieldGard® Maize 2 of Acceleron® seed treatments and seed sizes. The DEKALB - Acceleron® ® maize seed can be dispensed from the seed box into YIELDGARD the planter by means of an AgriCad trailer or a hydraulic /// YELLOW MAIZE MAIZE 2 system. Smaller producers and those still preferring to - Green buy their DEKALB seed in bags, will also benefit from brand - YieldGard® Maize 2 new packaging solutions. These new and improved seed - Acceleron® bags are manufactured from a very strong material which will not easily tear and damage. They are also colour coded /// WHITE MAIZE for the easy identification of the specific biotechnology - Orange traits associated with the various DEKALB hybrids. - Acceleron® CONVENTIONAL This is just another example of Bayer shaping agriculture /// YELLOW MAIZE to benefit farmers, consumers, and our planet. - Orange For further information, contact your nearest DEKALB - Acceleron® sales representative. SEED YOUR SUCCESS 4 | Bayer maize product guide 2021 Bayer maize product guide 2021 | 5 MAIZE REGION EASTERN BUILD-UP E PROTECTION MAIZE WITH BUILT-IN TECHNOLOGY YieldGard® MAIZE 2 offers: • Built-in protection against maize stalk borers Busseola fusca and Chilo partellus, as well as the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda). • Secures the hybrid’s genetic potential. • Reduce chemical application for insect control. PROTECTING YOUR CROPS FROM THE INSIDE OUT. MAIZE Roundup Ready® MAIZE 2 offers: • Built-in tolerance to registered and SEED YOUR SUCCESS approved glyphosate herbicides. Optimal performance starts • Effective broad-spectrum weed from within. With our built-in control for maximised yield potential. EASTERN technology designed to protect • Crop safe weed control system. your maize, you can rest assured • Secures the hybrid’s genetic potential. MAIZE REGION that your crops are taken care of. • Enables no-till farming and conservation cultivation practices. 6 | Bayer maize6 | Maize product product guide guide 2021 2021 HYBRID CHOICE AND HYBRID POSITIONING YIELD POTENTIAL 01 Characteristics of YIELD STABILITY SEED YOUR SUCCESS 02 hybrids in order of LENGTH OF GROWING SEASON 03 importance STANDABILITY 04 Hybrid choice boils down to choosing the most suitable hybrids for your DISEASE TOLERANCE 05 farming environment. The traits listed from high to low in the diagram HERBICIDE TOLERANCE 06 are identified by growers as the most INSECT TOLERANCE 07 critical to their operations. AGRONOMIC TRAITS 08 All of these traits can and should be verified by data and Hybrid placement or positioning is about getting the interpreted to fit your own conditions: right hybrid on the right field. Tied to this is spreading the risk on the farm to ensure that all possible challenges are • Use new technologies like Climate FieldView™ to gather evaluated and catered for during the placement of the on farm data to drive decisions. hybrid on the field. • Evaluation of multiple localities: Data from a single Content locality is one-dimensional and does not present a complete view of the yield potential of the hybrid. • Evaluating hybrids across multiple localities allows 01 Eastern Maize Region producers to form an accurate picture of the hybrid – Yellow dry land East pg 011 and its stability. The acceptable norm is at least thirty localities. – White dry land East pg 019 • Evaluation of hybrids across different seasons: In a – Yellow end of life hybrids pg 024 country like South Africa, it is essential to evaluate – White end of life hybrids pg 027 hybrids across different years. Seasonal differences are high and substantial variations in temperatures and rainfall can occur annually; the recommended period to take into account is generally at least three years. Bayer maize product guide 2021 | 9 Below are some of the important considerations when placing hybrids on a field. These aspects will influence IMPORTANT FOR INTERPRETATION hybrid placement and should be taken into account when OF “SPIDER GRAPHS” taking decisions. • Hybrids are ranked from 1 to 4. • 1 is the hybrid with best outcome for the situation. SOIL-TYPE DYNAMICS • 4 is the hybrid with least suitable/advisable • For poorly drained soils - hybrids with good stalk outcome for the situation. strength. • During placement more than 1 factor can be important. YELLOW • Sandy dryland – lower population needs higher prolificacy. • Interpret different factors together to make sound decisions. • Texture. • Combine assumptions to position more • Structure. DRY LAND than one hybrid. • Chemical analysis. • Use a process of elimination working through the POSITIONING IN THE EAST spider graphs to end up with recommendations.