Corteva Agriscience launches Pioneer A-Series Enlist E3 for soybeans

Sep 20, 2022

New Pioneer brand available for 12 varieties of soybeans across a range of maturities.

Corteva Agriscience has launched Pioneer brand A-Series Enlist E3 soybeans, available to growers in Eastern Canada.

Featuring varieties exclusive to Pioneer, it combines the company’s world-class genetics of its brand A-Series soybeans—its highest-yielding varieties ever—with Enlist technology, one of the most advanced trait technologies in soybeans.

Available in limited volumes as of September 1, 2022, Pioneer offers 12 different A-Series Enlist E3 soybean varieties across a range of maturities that meet Eastern Canada’s soybean needs, with more varieties being introduced in 2023.

Along with this yield performance, A-Series Enlist E3 soybeans will give farmers improved agronomic traits, including Soybean Cyst Nematode (SCN) resistance, white mold, Phytophthora, and Sudden Death Syndrome.

“We’re excited to offer Eastern Canadian soybean farmers A-Series Enlist E3 soybeans which are expected to bring a significant boost to yield performance potential with the Enlist E3 soybean trait,” said Jeff Loessin, Seeds Leader, Corteva Agriscience Canada. “That yield potential is then protected by exceptional agronomic characteristics and defensive traits to fight diseases and pests.”

In extensive testing and trials across geographies in 2021, A-Series Enlist E3 soybeans delivered a bushels-per-acre advantage that equates to $32.00/A in potential additional farm income against all competitors. Loessin anticipates that the advantage will only continue to increase.

A-Series Enlist E3 soybeans bring a new generation of yield potential to the Enlist E3 soybean market.

US farmers are already familiar with the Enlist weed control system. With an adoption rate on US soybean acres of greater than 45 percent in 2022, the Enlist weed control system is the industry’s fastest-growing soybean herbicide system, a trend Pioneer expects to continue with the introduction of high-performing A-series Enlist E3 soybeans.

The Enlist weed control system provides a new standard for weed control that delivers on-target applications with enhanced flexibility. The Enlist weed control system will fit a farmer’s herbicide program while providing control of hard-to-control and resistant weeds like Waterhemp, Canada Fleabane, Field horsetail, and many more. Enlist herbicides feature near-zero volatility and reduced potential for physical drift when applied according to label instructions, as well as a wide application window, no calendar cut-off dates, or temperature restrictions.

More information can be found at www.corteva.com.

Video: Western Canadian Agriculture: Hard Times Made the World's Best Farmers

Western Canadian agriculture produced the most advanced farmers in the world not through abundance but through adversity. The crow rate fell. The wheat price went nowhere. The brown envelopes stopped.

When the subsidies disappeared, the bad farmers left and the good ones stayed. And the ones who stayed could not just grow wheat anymore. They started growing lentils and canola and peas and flax and faba beans. They built crop rotation. They got serious about agronomy because there was no government backstop. That process produced the Western Canadian agriculture Dennis Bulani describes in this clip: the most advanced, most educated farming culture in the world.

His contrast with Iowa corn and soybean farmers is sharp. At a DeKalb farmer meeting in Okoboji, Iowa, he asked what crop rotation they ran. Beans on corn stubble, corn on bean stubble. How do you fertilize? The co-op agronomist handles it. Have you considered other crops? No need. We make so much money on corn and soybeans. Western Canadian agriculture was never allowed that comfort. And now those Iowa farmers are watching soybean markets lock up with China and corn prices slide, and they do not have the agronomy knowledge or the research base to pivot. Western Canadian farmers adapted on a dime because they had done it before.

Dennis also makes the case that Western Canadian agriculture keeps adapting in real time. Low commodity prices over the past year have pushed growers to look seriously at precision spot-spray technology. He knows a neighbor who bought a sprayer with the seeing-eye system and sprayed only 80 out of 320 acres. As a chemical retailer Dennis acknowledges that will affect his sales. He supports it anyway, because if it advances Canadian agriculture and makes farmers money, that is a good outcome.

The lesson Dennis draws from the tale of two farms: continuous improvement is the only durable strategy. When canola was $22 a bushel some growers went to Arizona instead of the Crop Production Show. When the price came down those same growers came back to the research and the discipline. Products do not go on Rack Petroleum's shelves unless they pass a replicated trial first. That is what Western Canadian agriculture built through hard times: farmers who do the work whether the times demand it or not.

Dennis Bulani is CEO of Rack Petroleum and Ultimate Yield in Biggar, Saskatchewan. Dan Aberhart hosts GTF Productions, Western Canadian Agriculture's foremost live briefing platform and its foremost AI training platform for ag operators