Syngenta bringing new biostimulant to Canadian farmers

YieldON helps amplify the grain-filling process

Syngenta is bringing a new product to Canadian farmers to help them increase yields.

Starting in 2025, corn, wheat, canola, soybean, and other row crop farmers can add YieldON to their toolboxes.

This product is designed to be applied at a very specific time, said Chris Dumigan, biologicals technical lead at Syngenta Canada.

“It’s a biostimulant meant to be mixed with a foliar fungicide application,” he told Farms.com. “After it’s applied at the reproductive stage of a crop’s lifecycle, so like around heading time in wheat, it amplifies the process that plants naturally do when they move sugars from their leaf tissue into the sink at seed formation.”

The product combines biomolecules from plants and seaweed, with trace elements of manganese, zinc, and molybdenum. It also has a four-hour rainfastness.

YieldON trials have shown the product can help increase yields.

But the increases aren’t uniform across the board.

“In cereals, so wheat, durum, and barley, we’ve seen an average of 2.9 bushel per acre increase over fungicide alone,” Dumigan said. “In canola, we are 1.8 bushels per acre above fungicide alone.”

It’s too early to identify how YieldON will help 2024 corn and soybean acres in Eastern Canada, Dumigan adds.

A small trial plot at the Honeywood Research Facility in Plattsville, Ont., in 2023 showed a six-bushel advantage over fungicide alone.

That’s in line with results out of the U.S.

“Our U.S. friends have done well over 100 trials in corn, and they’ve seen an average of seven bushels per acre,” Dumigan said.

YieldON will be sold in a 2 x 10 L case and a 450 L tote.

Anyone seeking more information about YieldON can visit Syngenta’s website, contact a local rep or visit a Syngenta booth at upcoming farm shows.