SmartStax® — Mycogen Seeds

Sales Rep:	Joseph Emanuele	724-261-9115
Agronomist:	Travis Keene	717-327-3090
Nutritionist:	John Brouillette	315-427-4741

Ashburn, VA (20146)

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Watch videos of customers who had success with Mycogen® brand hybrids with SmartStax®.

Mycogen® brand hybrids with SmartStax brought value to these customers.

David Klaus, Carlinville, Ill.

Harvey Reed, Lewisville, Minn.

Max Schmucker, Nappanee, Ind.

Nathan Burbrink, North Vernon, Ind.

Chuck Trainor, Tower Hill, Ill.

No comparison

SmartStax® technology, found in Dow AgroSciences
Refuge Advanced® powered by SmartStax, controls more insects with more modes of action than Genuity® VT Double PRO® RIB Complete™.
Refuge Advanced - VT Double PRO Comparison

Refuge Advanced - VT Double PRO Comparison

*Avicta® Complete Corn seed treatment provides protection against corn nematode.

Hybrids with SmartStax provide higher whole-farm yield potential by reducing the above- and below-ground refuge requirement from 20 percent down to 5 percent.1 These elite hybrids deliver the broadest spectrum of in-plant insect protection — including European corn borer, corn rootworm, corn earworm, fall armyworm, western bean cutworm and black cutworm — through multiple modes of action.

¹In cotton-growing regions, refuge requirements are reduced from 50 percent to 20 percent.

²In cotton-growing regions, a separate 20 percent structured refuge is still required for Refuge Advanced.

Value calculator for SmartStax®

Growers can plant Mycogen brand corn hybrids with SmartStax on 95 percent of their acres — that means more protection on more acres. The value calculator for SmartStax® shows the potential economic benefits of planting hybrids with SmartStax.

Hybrids with SmartStax demonstrated an average 11 bu./A yield advantage compared with non-Bt hybrids under minimal insect pressure in yield studies conducted in multiple states.

Broadest-spectrum insect control

Mycogen brand corn hybrids with SmartStax offer the broadest-spectrum control ever available — including European corn borer, corn rootworm, corn earworm, fall armyworm, western bean cutworm and black cutworm.

Multiple modes of action

The multiple modes of action in SmartStax are expressed throughout the entire plant. With SmartStax® technology, insects are affected in two areas of the midgut instead of just one for improved control and reduced insect resistance concerns. First-generation traits only offer a single mode of action.

Latest plant genetics

Developed in our state-of-the-art breeding facilities, Mycogen brand corn hybrids with SmartStax use proven, high-yielding genetics.

Higher whole-farm yield potential

Growers who plant Mycogen® brand corn hybrids with SmartStax can protect more acres from insect damage and experience greater whole-farm yield potential. Now SmartStax is available with refuge seed in a single-bag solution.

Dow AgroSciences Refuge Advanced powered by SmartStax® eliminates the need for separate structured refuge acres where it is planted in the Corn Belt and simplifies achieving higher whole-farm yield potential.²

Dow AgroSciences innovation

As a co-developer of SmartStax and the company backing Mycogen Seeds,
Dow AgroSciences has a long history of developing scientific solutions to increase yield. In 1988, Dow AgroSciences discovered the first Herculex® Insect Protection gene — one of the key technologies contained in Mycogen brand corn hybrids with SmartStax. We’re also working on yield protection tools
                           for the future, including the
                           Enlist™ Weed Control System and
                           stress tolerance technology.