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Success in Your Soils 2
New Products 2
Local Testing 2
Xtend Training Required 2
Digital Tools Insert
New Traits 3
Seed Treatment 3
Technology Use Agreement 3
Crop Shop 4
Pioneer: Building Momentum I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :
Your Local Pioneer Information Spring 2020
Lee Ag Services Spring Update
www.leeagservices.com
507-317-7452
In the seed business, research and development decisions made 7 to 10 years ago dictate the direction the business is headed today. Good news folks, Pioneer’s decision to increase investment, rethink how they do research, and ensure access to traits has positioned the organization in a good spot to deliver high quality products with the traits you want. Pioneer is growing. Customers across MN, WI, ND, & SD are planting more acres of Pioneer.
Last fall our new corn and soybean products we evaluated in plots and small strips consistently exceeded the results of current lineup which has been very competitive. We are raising the bar on performance. Let’s bring this home and make it easier to understand what it means to you.
Soybeans – Our A-series soybeans are industry leaders in yield and agronomics. We introduced an amazing new soybean P18A33X that continues to build that high performance Xtend lineup with excellent iron chlorosis tolerance. We continue to offer proven LL soybean products with excellent agronomics and now are building into Enlist E3 soybeans. I have sold all three trait packages so be sure to check with your neighbors before spraying!
Corn – We have transitioned to Qrome on many of the triple stack products. Optimized performance and expanded germplasm options make this a big deal! We have several solid new products that will replace some our prior leaders while maintaining or improving agronomic stability. Lumialza seed treatment has been added to your seed this year and it works with beneficial soil organisms to improve nutrient uptake while also controlling yield robbing nematodes. Protecting seed in the beginning will help maximize results in the end.
Pioneer’s digital ag offerings helps growers to improve their farm. See my special insert highlighting Pioneers Digital Ag Tools. Also, see updates on my weather station and advanced tools for my drone as well.
Wrap up solid products with my commitment to deliver useful services, and I hope you find your Pioneer seed purchase to be a valuable part of your business. Wishing you a successful 2020!
With you from the word GO! Ryan Lee
Corn: P9551Q, P9619AM, P0220Q, P0507Q
Soybeans: Xtend: P14A78X, P16A84X, P18A33X, P25A04X
Enlist: P13T61E, P21T43E, P22T18E, P24T35E
Limited quantities are available of these new products. Call for more info.
Mark your calendar for Wednesday, March 4 @ 9 AM to Noon for learn more about
area soil health efforts in Southern Renville Co. NRCS and Renville Co Soil & Water
are hosting a meeting at the Franklin Community Center to highlight soil conservation
opportunities and review programs available.
I am joining Brent Hilbert & Chris Lee to share what we have learned in the last 4 years
about soil health and utilizing cover crops in our cash crop systems. Look for some
discussion on the economics of soil health and how you can make your soils work for
you. See the detailed invite on my website.
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Dicamba Herbicide Training Required
Make your Plan
Corteva’s Field Planning
tool is a customer
accessible feature. I use
this to create map based
field planting plans for
customers to document
planting records. It is the
starting point to build data
to manage your fields
throughout the season.
I can print and bind a book
for your personal field plan
for spring planting. Ask me
about building your
personal plan.
https://app.fields.corteva.com/
Local Testing Delivers Local Data
Annual training continues to be required for
the application of dicamba products to Xtend
soybean system for 2020. If you didn’t
attend an in person session, on-line training is
now available in Minnesota. The web training
can be accessed at this shortcut:
http://cloud01.bader-
rutter.com/DAAGFEXA7051/Minnesota/#/
New Products for 2020
Corteva Cash
Growers that had qualifying
purchases received Corteva
incentive dollars you received
by purchasing Pioneer
products. If you have any
questions or need some
guidance you can call me or
your local retailer should be
able to help you utilize your
earnings.
This winter we have been busy making plans to evaluate our products and to continue
to have good information to share with you. My agency will have… Two corn plots from
92 – 106 RM that includes our new and existing lineup including Qrome products. An
Xtend soybean plot to evaluate our A-series Xtend soybeans including several new
products for 2020. I will have a plot for the Enlist E3 soybeans as well and there will be
LL soybean plots across the area as well.
Pioneer is returning for its fourth year to conduct 13 acres of small plot hybrid testing on
our farm. Pioneer is developing products adapted to our area and is committed to
developing leader products for MN.
Pioneer invests extensive resources towards on farm trials to build information for our
Agronomy Research Summary books. Hopefully you have found the agronomy
summary valuable. You can access it in digital format from my website as well.
Success In Your Soils
More trials we’re
conducting:
One row Iron Chlorosis
One row Purple Corn
Seed Treatments
Emergence Flagging
Stand Establishment
DISCOUNT LOCK
Need more seed?
Receive the same
discounts on additional
purchases as you
received on your initial
paid invoice.
New products have arrived to market and will be in area fields.
Enlist E3™ soybeans are widely available in many brands for U.S. growers in
2020. What are Enlist E3™ soybeans? These industry-leading, herbicide-
tolerant soybeans provide tolerance to three herbicides:
• Enlist Duo® and Enlist One® herbicides (2,4-D choline)
• Glyphosate herbicides (Roundup)
• Glufosinate herbicides (Liberty)
Enlist E3™ soybeans acres are taking off at a faster pace than I anticipated. The flexibility and user-friendly system should deliver solid weed control. Just remember to invest in some type of pre to reduce early season weed pressure and widen the post application timing window for successful weed control. Corteva has a rebate program on the Enlist herbicide program. Check with me for more details.
Pioneer® brand Qrome® products are optimized high-performance, triple-stack
hybrids for growers. This new trait is easier to work with and unlocks more
germplasm to deliver new products. Much of our lineup has evolved to the
Qrome version to deliver triple stacked products replacing the prior AMXT
version.
Lee Ag Services Spring Update 2020
New Seed Traits Acres Expanding
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Corteva is moving to AgCelerate for Technology Use Agreements (TUAs)
What is AgCelerate and why is Corteva using this application to manage TUAs? AgCelerate (https://www.agcelerate.com/Home) is an industry platform used by all major seed and technology suppliers to manage seed technology use agreements and grower license information.
TUAs signed through AgCelerate will be shared across all Corteva seed brand invoicing systems and sales channels (e.g. Pioneer, Multi-channel Seed Brands, Retail, etc.). Therefore, the customer only has to sign one TUA.
• Simplification - Currently there are 20+ active TUAs in-use across the various sales channels. The Corteva TUA covers all products, therefore, reducing the management of multiple TUAs per customer to ONE. If you have signed an updated TUA this fall or winter, you are good to go. Otherwise, by this fall, I will need you to have an AgCelerate account, log in and select Corteva TUA, and digitally sign that agreement before I can invoice seed for 2021. I’m happy to help you navigate this change for Pioneer and get you setup going forward. Let me know if you would like some help. Thanks.
Fungicide Insecticide Biological Inoculant Included
$11.00/Unit
Lee Ag Services 507-317-7452
Pioneer Night at Target Field
Saturday night
August 22nd, 2020
Minnesota Twins v. Detroit Tigers
First Pitch at 6:05pm
True-Choice Prepay Savings Deadline March 13th is the deadline for growers to participate in the 2019 – 2020 TruChoice® Prepay Savings. Earn the 3-5% prepay
upfront savings on Corteva Crop Protection products purchased. You also receive extra seed discounts for those who
spend $7500 or more on Corteva crop protection chemicals. Give me a call if you have questions about this opportunity.
61583 Co Rd 16
Fairfax MN 55332
507-317-7452
WITH YOU - FROM THE -
WORD GO!
Access local weather data on
Weather Underground
Network
Lee Ag Services KMNCAMP3
Temperature
Wind
Rainfall
Solar Radiation
Winter Crop Shop – Agronomy & Product Update Meeting
March 6, 2020 10 am Lee Ag Services office
Agronomist Troy Elfering with be presenting:
- Agronomy discussion - Optimizing fertility levels
- New products for 2020 and beyond - Enlist soybeans ramp-up
- Granular Insights App for imagery - Bring your Questions - Lunch to Follow
Hope to see you there! Ryan Lee 507-317-7452
What is digital ag? It is field maps for
spring planting, variable rate planting
maps, satellite imagery, as planted maps,
as applied maps, harvest maps, drone
field mapping, Pioneer app, yield
estimating, new Granular Insights,
nitrogen management, fertility
management for P, K, and Lime, weather
data, and more.
Digital Tools - Special Insert
The digital world evolves so fast it is difficult to keep up. Corteva is committed
to building a user friendly and functional digital tools.
Granular is a digital ag solutions company that is moving the digital ag
platform to next level. Ease of use, consolidated solutions, valuable insights,
time saving directed scouting, simple profit and loss analysis of your fields,
and is compatible across 10 different monitor types.
Granular has helped Pioneer consolidate many digital tools with your farm
data in a single platform creating more value than ever in one place. If you
want to evolve in the digital ag world, there are opportunities at all levels to
grow your business into these tools. I am here to help you experience the
digital tools from the simplest no cost options to the full on data management
and integration into these tools. So if you have monitors you’re not sure how
to use the data from, I can help make that information into a useable product
at whatever level makes sense to your operation.
Digital Ag Suite of Tools from Corteva
Lee Ag Services Weather Station Update
Weather underground has re-designed their app and now the rainfall data
is displayed from my weather station again. Another thing I added last year
was the 4” soil temp and soil moisture sensor to the weather station. That
information can be found via the Davis Weatherlink under the Soil Node
heading. (See my website) I will
deploy the soil moisture and temp
sensors again this spring as soon as
I am able to dig them in the soil.
Pioneer Twins Night
Cover Crop economics
Drones – more than just pictures
It has been 4 years since I purchased
a drone and technology keeps evolving
in this area as well. New this year, sales
reps now have access to two new tools:
Drone Deploy and Corteva Flight.
Drone Deploy allows an autonomous
flight pattern be set to capture and stitch
photos together to make a real time
google earth like image of your field as
well as crop health mapping.
Corteva Flight will capture still
images and generate field stand
assessments at V3-V4 sized corn.
Contact me to utilize these useful
tools on your farm this summer.
Pioneer App
Granular Insights App
Corteva Fields
Web Based
Digital Solutions For Every Farmer – Let me help you navigate the options.
Digital Tool Function Value
Corteva Fields
Free Web Based
Creating Field Plans
Product Placement
Variable Rate Seeding
Creating and Viewing Fertility Plans -
subscription based service
Planting plans help you optimize your
product placement and planting
season organization.
Printed Planting Plan Book or
Pioneer App
Pioneer Seeds App
Free App
Services Included
Viewing Product Placement
Viewing Field Plans
Satellite Imagery (Viewable after a Week)
w/ Vegetation Index (Crop Health Index)
Yield Estimator
Find Me – Blue dot on scouting map
Planting Rate Estimator
Digital Bag Tag
Field Observations and Notes
Agronomy Resource Library
Maps: Hybrid, Yield, Seeding Rate
App for your smartphone allowing
you access to these useful tools
wherever you are.
Brings field plans, as planted maps,
imagery, crop scouting, yield
estimates into one place with the
ability to make geo tagged notes
throughout the season.
Digital bag tag and planting rate
estimator is now right in the field with
you as you plant. Efficient access to
important information.
Agronomic reference materials now
accessible in the app as well.
Granular Insights
App or Web based
Subscription based
services
Satellite Imagery (Real time after processing)
w/ Vegetation Index (Crop Health Index)
Crop Placement
Directed Scouting –notification of changes
Find Me– Blue dot on scouting map
Maps: Hybrid, Yield, Seeding Rate,
Planting Date, Revenue, Seed Cost, Return on
Seed
Agronomic Analysis Summaries
(Yield, Moisture, Harvest, Seeding Rate)
Financial Summaries (Revenue, Seed Cost,
Return on Seed)
Insights Analysis (Harvest Moisture, and
Coming Soon: Nitrogen Use, Seeding Rate, and
Planting Date)
This web and mobile application
helps farmers identify at-risk fields
faster and analyze agronomic and
financial data in one place.
Upload your planting and harvest
data and this will generate financial
profit/loss maps across the field. Use
real seed costs, set your own prices
and it is a powerful profit/loss tool.
The data is exclusively yours.
Granular is a company outside of
Pioneer so unless you share your
data, no one else can see it. You
have options to invite partner’s
access to your data if desired.
Lee Ag Services Spring Update 2020
www.leeagservices.com
507-317-7452