At the same time Chuck was in Savannah covering the National Agricultural Aviation Association meeting on behalf of BASF Crop Protection last week, the company was making news at the 40th annual American Seed Trade Association’s (ASTA) 2010 Seed Expo in Chicago.
In several updates provided to seed partners, BASF announced a label expansion for Stamina® F3 HL. The fungicide seed treatment is now available for use on corn, sorghum, rye, oats and triticale, in addition to wheat and barley, which were previously approved.
Also at the expo, the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) announced that BASF grower teams placed first in all four 2010 Yield Challenge districts they competed in during the American Seed Trade Association meeting in Chicago.
Each first-place team used a combination of BASF products, such as Headline® fungicide, Respect® insecticide and Kixor® herbicide technology, to intensively manage their acres and achieve winning yields. The BASF District 6 team, led by BASF Sales Representative Brad White, was also awarded the Novel Practices Award for earning the largest yield difference between traditional and high-yield practices in the entire state.