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Healthy YieldGard Plus roots soak up more moisture and nutrients.

It’s never been easier to find a buyer for your biotech grain.You have many options when selling grain harvested from YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2 including feeding the corn on-farm or selling it to grain elevators that supply approved markets, feedlots or feed mills. More and more elevators buy all corn, all year long. Even if your local elevators didn’t buy biotech grain before, it’s worth checking again now.

PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR GRAIN ELEVATOR ABOUT THE MARKETING OPTIONS THAT YOU HAVE FOR YIELDGARD PLUS WITH ROUNDUP READY CORN 2.

Roundup Ready crops contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup agricultural herbicides. Roundup agricultural herbicides will kill crops that are not tolerant to glyphosate. Roundup WeatherMAX, Transorb, Roundup Ready, START CLEAN, STAY CLEAN. and YieldGard are trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC. Monsanto Canada Inc., licensee. BattalionTM is a trademark of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Callisto® is a registered trademark of Syngenta Crop Protection Canada. Marksman® and Distinct® are registered trademarks of BASF Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2006 Monsanto Canada Inc.. [27734-1 OP 09/06]

Upgrade to YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2.

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It’s the best of everything: maximum insect protection combined with proven crop safety and great weed control in the Roundup Ready® Corn 2 System. Even better, growing YieldGard® Plus Corn with Roundup Ready Corn 2 doesn’t require different equipment or significantly different agronomic practices. It fits into how you already farm – with added profit potential and convenience. See for yourself why YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2 makes perfect profit sense. Plant it on your acres, and watch your potential grow.

Plant YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2. It’s the ultimate combination of maximum insect protection and unsurpassed weed control.

Corn production doesn’t get any better than this. Maximum Insect Protection Crop Safety Maximum Yield Potential 2Point

Maximum RootsHealthier Stalks

YieldGard Plus protects both the roots and stalk from insect damage.

• Protection is in the seed, so it’s more effective and consistent than traditionally applied insecticide and seed treatments.

• Protected roots reach full mass potential.

• Stalks can stay healthy and strong – reduced lodging and ear drop.

The superior protection of YieldGard Plus allows corn to maintain a healthier stalk.

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The effective and consistent control of YieldGard Plus allows corn to develop a maximum root system

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Lost root masspotential

Soil insecticideapplied in T-band or band

The effective and consistent control of YieldGard Plus allows corn to develop a maximum root system.

YieldGard Plus is the first corn technology to deliver whole-season, in-plant protection against European corn borer as well as effective and consistent protection against western and northern corn rootworms, for a zone of protection throughout the plant. YieldGard Plus also suppresses earworms, fall armyworms and stalk borers. Conventional corn is only protected where and when you apply insecticides. Smaller area. Smaller yield potential.

YieldGard Plus also offers in-the-bag protection against black cutworms, wireworms, white grubs, seed corn maggots and early flea beetles. No seed treatment, soil insecticide or other technology protects your yield potential against more insects. And nothing gives you the maximum root health and stalk strength of YieldGard Plus.

MaxIMUM INSeCT PRoTeCTIoN

YieldGard Plus protects against: Western Corn Rootworms • Northern Corn Rootworms european Corn Borers • Black Cutworms • Fall armyworms • Stalk Borers • Wireworms

White Grubs • Seed Corn Maggots • early Flea Beetles • earworms

a larger root system and a healthierstalk enables the corn plant to utilizemore nutrients and moisture toproduce higher yields

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YieldGard Plus with the Roundup Ready Corn 2 System maximizes the amount of moisture and nutrients carried up through the plant to help maximize yields.

• Outstanding weed control reduces weed competition and leaves more moisture and nutrients for the corn.

• Fuller roots have more mass to absorb moisture and nutrients.

• Healthier stalks can better transport moisture and nutrients.

• Proven crop safety of Roundup WeatherMAX® enables moisture and nutrients to reach undamaged leaves.

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a larger root system and a healthier stalk enable the corn plant to utilize more nutrients and moisture to produce higher yields.


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Application Flexibility

The convenience of YieldGard Plus combined with Roundup Ready Corn 2 really adds up. For YieldGard Plus you get: • Less insecticide handling. • Less time spent scouting for damage. • More efficient harvest due to reduced lodging.

The Roundup Ready Corn 2 System has flexibility built right in:• Simplifies your weed control program and provides greater

flexibility to manage around the weather. • Wider window of post-emergence herbicide application

in case the weather does not cooperate – up to eight-leaf stage. This weather safety factor puts you in control of your spray schedule.

• Opportunity to control late annual weed flushes.• Increased ability to spray at the best possible time.• Roundup WeatherMAX can provide consistent performance

even when spray conditions are less than ideal.

The Roundup Ready Corn 2 System simplifies your weed-control program and provides greater flexibility to manage around the weather.

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In general, weeds should be controlled before they exceed 10 cm in height.Data compiled from herbicide product labels using standard use rates and no tank mix partners.

The Roundup Ready Corn 2 System provides unsurpassed weed control. • Early-season weed control is critical for early corn plant development

and maximum genetic yield potential. Roundup agricultural herbicides

can provide that protection.• Because Roundup WeatherMAX and Roundup Ultra® herbicides are

so effective, you may need to apply only one post-emergence product.

Compare Roundup agricultural herbicides to other post-emergence herbicides. You’ll find Roundup WeatherMAX in the Roundup Ready Corn 2 System gives you broader, more consistent control on grasses and broadleaf weeds.

Start Clean, Stay Clean.TM • Early-season weed control is critical to maximizing yield potential.• It reduces weeds to reduce the weed seed bank.• It gives you better flexibility for maximum weed control – pre to late-post.• Timely applications and the appropriate rate of Roundup WeatherMAX

will give you unsurpassed broad-spectrum weed control.• Because Roundup WeatherMAX herbicide is so effective, it may be the only

post-emergence product you need.

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Barnyardgrass C C N N N

Crabgrass C C N N N

Fall Panicum C C N N N

Foxtail (species) C C N N N

Volunteer Corn C* N N N N

Wild Proso Millet C N N N N

Quackgrass C N N N N

Wire-stemmed Muhly C N N N N

Canada Fleabane C N N N N

Chickweed C N N N N

Lady’s Thumb C C N C C

Lamb’s Quarters C C C C C

Eastern Black Nightshade C C C N N

Pigweed C C C C C

Ragweed, Common C C S C C

Ragweed, Giant C C N C N

Velvetleaf C C C C C

Wild Buckwheat C C N C C

Dandelion C N N N N

Field Bindweed C N N S N

Forages - Alfalfa and Red Clover C N N N N

Milkweed C N N N N

Perennial Sow Thistle C N N C N

Yellow Nutsedge C N N S N

“C” - Control “S” - Suppression or partial control “N” - Not listed on label *Controls volunteer corn that is not Roundup Ready Data obtained from respective product labels

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Maximize your weed control to minimize the risk of weed resistance.Using Roundup Ready technology either singly or sequentially in typical Canadian crop rotations has shown low risk of resistance development in research to date. It’s just a matter of following a few easy guidelines, such as starting clean, and staying clean with the use of Roundup agricultural herbicides and other herbicides as appropriate.

1. Always use good agronomic practices

2. Always start clean with a weed-free field

3. Use the right rate of Roundup agricultural herbicide at the right time

4. If initial application is delayed and weeds are larger, a higher rate may be required

5. Add other herbicides and cultural practices where appropriate as part of the Roundup Ready Cropping System

6. Scout fields for possible escapes and take appropriate actions for effective control

7. Report any incident of non-performance to your local retailer or Monsanto Representative

Facts about weed resistance and Roundup agricultural herbicides. 1. Roundup agricultural herbicides have been on the

market for 30 years and have been the most widely used herbicide in corn and soybeans for over eight years.

2. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup agricultural herbicides has a unique mode of action and makes the chances of weed resistance to Roundup agricultural herbicide less likely than other chemistries.

3. No weed species in Canada have demonstrated resistance to glyphosate to date.

4. If signs of resistance should occur, options are available to manage effectively. Tank mixes have provided effective control of resistant weeds.

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Plant YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2. It’s the best combination of maximum insect protection and unsurpassed weed control.

Based on 75 trials over 6 consecutive years.

Outstanding Crop Safety

The Roundup Ready Corn 2 System delivers proven crop safety – and peace of mind. Lowering your risk of crop injury can deliver more bushels an acre than conventional corn herbicide programs.• Because Roundup agricultural herbicides are specifically designed for

Roundup Ready Corn 2, you can get superior crop safety compared with other non-glyphosate post-emergence herbicides.

• The Roundup Ready Corn 2 System can reduce potential yield loss from crop injury.

• Grower on-farm trials have shown that using Roundup agricultural herbicides with built-in crop safety on Roundup Ready Corn 2 can yield more bushels per acre than certain other conventional herbicide programs (applied over the same Roundup Ready hybrid).

Yield Potential, Yield Protection

YieldGard Plus with the Roundup Ready Corn 2 System maximizes yield potential.

Everyone has weed pressure, which makes Roundup Ready Corn 2 a natural. But for those who also have the added potential of insect damage, YieldGard Plus can help. Both technologies are proven to return more profit than conventional corn.

More available Moisture and Nutrients + More Transported = More Yield Potential

Less Postemergence Herbicide Injury + Less Lodging + Less Ear Drop = More Yield Protected

Source: International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds, Dr. Ian Heap.

Yield advantage of Roundup Ready Corn 2 System vs. Conventional System

Conventional Roundup Ready(1 application)

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Roundup Ready(2 applications)

Field trials have demonstrated that two applications generates the most yield in Roundup Ready Corn 2.


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