Advantages of Soybean Seed Treatment
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What is the purpose of a seed treatment?
Seed treatment induces early germination and prevents seed-borne pathogens and pests. Seed rhizomes have to be treated before planting to control rhizome rot and other seed-borne diseases.
What are benefits of seed treatment and why is it important?
Seed treatment can improve seed germination, seedling emergence, plant vigour, stand establishment and total yield, helping to ensure the crop or pasture is on its way to reaching its full genetic potential.
What is treated soybean seed?
Background. Neonicotinoid seed treatments (“neonics”) are widely used to protect soybean seedlings against a broad range of insect pests up to four weeks after planting.
Why is seed protection important?
Treatments guard your seed investment during the crucial early development stages, helping to prevent irreversible damage from numerous early-season pests, including insects, diseases and nematodes.
Why seed treatment is essential in some species?
Seed treatments protect seeds and seedlings against early-season insect pests and diseases. Results in stronger, healthier plants, and higher crop yields. Allows for more accuracy and efficiency in crop production inputs.
Why are seed treated before sowing?
Seeds are treated with fungicides before sowing to avoid seed borne diseases.
How long does soybean seed treatment protection generally last?
When applied to soybeans in the form of a seed treatment, neonicotinoids enter seedling roots and are translocated to all parts of a growing plant. Insect pests ingest the insecticide when feeding on any part of the plant, and protection lasts three to four weeks after planting.
Do soybean seed treatments pay?
University of Wisconsin research shows that using seed treatments on soybeans offers a fairly high probability of payback, especially when soybean prices are at least $9/bu. and/or average yields are in the mid to high range.
What does soybean inoculant do?
For nitrogen fixation to occur, the nitrogen-fixing bacteria known as Bradyrhizobia japonicum must be established in the soil through seed inoculation. Soybean can obtain up to 50 to 75% of its nitrogen requirements from the air when nitrogen-fixing bacteria have established functioning nodules on the roots.
Why seeds are treated with fungicides?
Fungicides applied on the seed provide protection against seed-borne pathogens such as Phomopsis spp which causes seed decay and interferes with germination. Using clean, disease free seed reduces the need to apply fungicide seed treatments for this purpose.
How much did soybean seed treatments increase yield?
The base seed treatments increased soybean yields at nine of the 29 locations with the yield increases ranging from 1.2 to 10 bushels per acre. However, the seed treatments were profitable at only five of the locations. When all 29 sites were combined, the seed treatment increased yields by 1.3 bushels per acre. This is slightly less than the 1.5 bushels per acre required to recover the cost of a basic fungicide plus insecticide seed treatment costing $14 per acre. The base seed treatments also increased final plant stands by 4,500 plants per acre when all sites were combined.
What is the purpose of the third on-farm research project evaluating seed treatments?
The purpose of the third on-farm research project evaluating seed treatments was to provide an opportunity for cooperators to evaluate the performance of the base seed treatment of their choice on their farms in 2017, 2018 and 2019. This trial compared two treatments (a base seed treatment including multiple fungicides plus an insecticide versus untreated seed from the same seed lot).
Does Clariva Pn suppress soybean cysts?
The goals were to determine how the product affected soybean cyst nematode population development and soybean yields. The Clariva pn did not suppress soybean cyst nematode development at the four locations infested with soybean cyst nematodes and it did not increase soybean yields in any of the seven trial locations.
Does Ilevo help with soybean cysts?
ILeVO seed treatment is marketed as having activity on sudden death syndrome and soybean cyst nematode, both of which are increasing in Michigan. ILeVO was tested in 19 trials conducted from 2016 to 2018. Like Clariva pn, ILeVO is not marketed as a stand-alone seed treatment, so we compared a base fungicide/insecticide seed treatment with and without ILeVO at all locations. When all 19 sites were combined, the ILeVO increased soybean yields by 1.9 bushels per acre despite very low levels of above-ground symptoms of sudden death syndrome in any of the trials. Again, like Clariva pn, ILeVO did not significantly suppress soybean cyst nematode development.
