Soybean Seed Treatment Plot

This plot was north of Wheaton and although the majority of growers use a seed treatment on their seed beans, it's always good to keep checking on the value of it. The variety of beans is Pioneer 90M80 and were planted in 30" rows. All of the treatments used a base of Apronmaxx for fungicide but we changed the added adjuvant each time. This whole plot did receive hail damage also.

Fung. + WC117  -    36.4 bu/a
Fung. + WC150  -    44.8 bu/a
Fung. + Generate  -  37.4 bu/a
Fung. + BioBoost  - 40.6 bu/a (our regular treatment at South Valley Seed)
Untreated Check   -  35.7 bu/a
Fung. + Marathon -  42.4 bu/a
Fung. + WC35      -  41.6 bu/a
Fung. + WC115    -  39.9 bu/a

As you see, all of the treatments were greater than the untreated with WC117 and Generate being the two treatments that didn't show much of a response. Our in-house treatment plots over the past 5 years have shown around 80% of the comparisons between non-seed treated beans vs. seed treated beans were worth the investment. This year looks no different.