2016 Agrisure Duracade Stewardship and Sales

Each year, corn rootworm (CRW) costs growers more than $1 billion in control measures and yield loss. The Agrisure Duracade® trait is an essential tool in managing this costly pest. One USDA study shows it reduces adult CRW beetle emergence by 99.97 percent, more than any other CRW trait on the market.¹ Agrisure Duracade is fully approved for sale in the U.S. and Canada and for export to many major importers of U.S. corn. Syngenta has submitted paperwork and is working to gain import approval in China and the European Union.

Syngenta believes in enabling growers to use the latest U.S.-approved technologies, like the Agrisure Duracade trait, to protect their crop’s yield and profit potential, while stewarding the end-use product in a responsible way.

After two successful seasons of stewarding Agrisure Duracade grain through Right to Grow programs, Syngenta has learned that the majority of grain containing Agrisure Duracade is fed on-farm to livestock or through feedlots in the U.S. With this in mind, Syngenta is taking a new approach to handling and stewarding grain from hybrids containing Agrisure Duracade.

For 2016 planting, Agrisure Duracade products will be sold in areas where CRW pressure is a primary concern to growers who either feed grain or silage to livestock on their own farms or who agree to deliver grain to select feedlots or ethanol plants designated by Syngenta. Working with Gavilon Grain LLC, Syngenta will offer a call center for growers to support proper stewardship and handling of corn containing Agrisure Duracade.

¹ “Mortality Impact of Bt Transgenic Maize Roots Expressing eCry3.1Ab, mCry3A and eCry3.1Ab plus mCry3A on Western Corn Rootworm Larvae in the Field.” Bruce E. Hibbard, Daniel L. Frank, Ryan Kurtz, Eric Boudreau, Mark R. Ellersieck and J. Frederick Odhiambo. Journal of Economic Entomology. 2011, 104 (5). 1584-1591.