The Crop Protection Network just released its soybean loss report for 2025, estimating 4.8 percent (216.5 million bushels) of the potential soybean production last year was lost due to disease across 29 soybean-producing U.S. states.
According to the report, Red crown rot was estimated to have caused 7.7 million bushels of soybean yield losses in the U.S. in 2025, up substantially compared to 2024, when losses were estimated at only 121,354 bushels. “Yield losses from red crown rot occurred in five U.S. states, and were primarily driven by estimated losses in Illinois and, to a lesser extent, in Indiana. The greatest cause of estimated yield losses in 2025 was soybean cyst nematode. However, estimated losses from soybean cyst nematode in 2025 were the lowest reported out of 30 years of available data. Estimated losses caused by sudden death syndrome in 2025 were the greatest since 2014.”
Syngenta is pleased to finally be able to offer soybean growers protection against all of those yield-robbing threats with Victrato® seed treatment, providing a new standard of protection during the season’s earliest stages, protecting the crop during its most vulnerable window of development.
At the recent Commodity Classic, Seedcare technical product lead Dale Ireland was excited to be able to tell growers the solution they have been working on for over a decade is finally available this season. “So this will be the first year U.S. soybean growers get to try it out, and I’m sure that they’ll be very pleased with it. It’s going to provide a new level of protection for sudden death syndrome, nematode protection, as well as the leading red crown rot solution.”
Ireland says the return on investment for Victrato is fantastic. “Because something like sudden death syndrome, for instance, or nematodes, you can’t reach back and treat those. If you don’t proactively treat, prophylactically treat, you don’t have a chance to protect yourself against those. And the same is true with red crown rot. So if you’re aware that that is even a potential, it’s something that you need to do and get your seed treated with these products.”
Learn more in this interview:
Dale Ireland, Ph.D., Seedcare technical product lead
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