See Vorceed™ Enlist® in Action This Summer

As summer 2023 moves into high gear, take the opportunity to kick the tires on the newest technology in corn rootworm and weed management.

At last summer’s training meetings, we introduced the Vorceed™ Enlist® products and PowerCore® Enlist® technologies and continued those topics throughout the winter. Now it’s time to see it in action.

Dairyland Seed released DS-4365V™ brand— its first entry with Vorceed Enlist technology. It is a 103-day, Vorceed Enlist-traited hybrid and can be seen in many plots throughout the Dairyland Seed marketing area. Contact your local company representative to find exact locations near you.

Vorceed Enlist products offer a myriad of benefits for growers. First is the multi-mode corn rootworm (CRW) control. In addition to CRW control, it also offers the above-ground insect control growers have come to appreciate. You can expect superior control of European corn borer, fall armyworm and southwestern corn borer. Vorceed Enlist products also bring herbicide tolerance to four herbicidal modes of action. This will be a power-packed technology toolbox for pest control. Here is a quick list of the traits:

CRW

• New RNAi technology
• Two Bt proteins
• Totaling three modes of action for CRW control

Above Ground Lepidopteran

• Three Bt protein modes of action

Weed Control Tolerance

• 2,4-D choline
• Glyphosate
• Glufosinate
• FOP herbicides (Assure II quizalofop)

Vorceed Enlist products will be an excellent fit for those acres hit hard with CRW. Its unique mode of action offers a new way to control these costly pests. Like existing technology, the rootworm must ingest corn tissue. Today’s traits offer a quicker mortality upon feeding whereas RNAi is a slower process. So feeding continues but at an increasingly slower rate until death occurs. The greatest advantage of RNAi is its reduction in emerging adults the following year. Studies show an approximate 99 percent reduction in adult emergence of western and northern corn rootworm compared to non-traited controls. The combination of the three modes of action offers greater opportunity to reduce damage especially in a long-term management system.

Get out and see the new DS-4365V™ brand at a plot near you and see what Vorceed Enlist products and this next generation of insect and weed control can do for you.

V – Vorceed™ Enlist® products with V, LL, RR, ENL. Contains a single-bag integrated refuge solution with multiple modes of action for above- and below-ground insects. The major component contains the Herculex® XTRA genes, the RW3 trait and the VTP trait. In EPA-designated cotton growing counties, a 20% separate corn borer refuge must be planted for Vorceed Enlist products.