Syngenta Biologicals featured two products at the Commodity Classic in San Antonio last month – Boosten, which supports crop resilience under stress, and YieldON, which helps plants push more sugar and starch into seed to increase yield. YieldOn has been available for several years now but this is the first year of sales for Boosten, according to Joe Ben Bogle, product marketing lead for Syngenta Seedcare and Biologicals.
“Boosten, being an earlier stage application, will typically go in with your post-herbicide pass to be able to get it on. And then with YieldOn, it would go in with your fungicide pass,” said Bogle. “I should also mention that they’re both based on plant extracts, so they’re non-living products. So when people hear about biologicals, a lot of the time they think about that these are living products that have to be treated and handled a certain way. With these being plant extract-based products, they’re really easy to handle and you don’t have to worry about some of the shelf life or tank mix limitations that you might run into otherwise.”
Bogle says there is a lot of biological companies out there and farmers have questions. “I think you’ve seen that it’s a very fragmented space with lots and lots of biological companies,” he said. “And I think when we talk to customers, they’re asking questions about how do we evaluate biological products, how do we evaluate the company that’s bringing us the product. And I think that as Syngenta, we bring a lot of experience and validation and scientific proof behind our products that helps to cut through some of that noise and be able to bring a more consistent approach to biologicals.”
Learn more about Syngenta Biologicals in this interview:
Classic26 – Joe Ben Bogle, Syngenta (5:39)
