Farmers in the southern United States are planting Monsanto's Genuity VT Triple Pro corn. This second generation corn technology will be sampled by 100-200 farmers as a limited commercial demonstration.These seeds provide the first ever dual modes for controlling insects above ground.This technology provides farmers with hide yield potential by controlling ear feeding insects and in turn can reduce the level of myotoxins. This break through helps protect corn from the corn borer and two previously uncontrolled pests-the corn earworm and the fall armyworm. Because it offers dual modes of protection, it has been approved for reduction in the refuge requirement for the corn borer from 20-50% in the South. The seeds also contain Round- Up Ready 2 weed control. Farmers will observe their feilds this summer for the corn borer and sendkernel samples to Monsanto.
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