Syngenta Introduces Water-Optimized Corn Hybrids

Syngenta Seeds, Inc. has unveiled its Agrisure Artesian technology, the new brand name for its range of water optimized hybrids and the newest addition to the Agrisure family of high-performance trait products. A limited quantity of hybrids with this technology, which has demonstrated the potential to deliver 15% yield preservation under drought stress, will be available through the company’s Garst, Golden Harvest, and NK product brands.

Agrisure Artesian technology enables corn plants to use available moisture more efficiently, resulting in higher yields on drought-stressed acres including dryland and limited-irrigation farms in the western Corn Belt. Growers on rainfed acres in the central and eastern Corn Belt likewise can use Agrisure Artesian technology to help stabilize yields in years of inconsistent rainfall or in fields with variable soil types and moisture-holding capacity. In years of ideal rainfall, hybrids with Agrisure Artesian technology have demonstrated no yield penalty compared with hybrids without the technology.

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“Any grower will tell you how tough it is to watch corn roll up under heat and drought stress during tasseling and silking, knowing those plants may never fully regain that lost yield,” says David Morgan, president of Syngenta Seeds, Inc. “We are pleased to announce Agrisure Artesian technology, the industry’s first water-optimized corn technology, to help growers preserve yields when moisture is limited due to lack of rains, poorly timed rains, or limited-irrigation situations.”

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Initial hybrids featuring Agrisure Artesian technology will be released primarily in the western Corn Belt – where the probability of drought stress in any given year is virtually 100 percent and yield of dryland corn can be less than 50 percent of irrigated yield levels.

Agrisure Artesian technology will be sold with Agrisure 3000GT and Agrisure GT trait technologies. Syngenta is also developing a complementary water-optimized hybrid product utilizing a genetically modified (GM) trait. These hybrids are anticipated to be available post-2015, pending receipt of all regulatory and key import market approvals.

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