Treating Your Corn Seed

Seed Treating

Growers have been treating soybeans with inoculants for a long time. In this video, the Hefty brothers talk about the recent popularity of soybean seed treatments.

Treating Your Corn

But, it's only recently that treating corn seed after it has been "pre-treated" with fungicides from your dealer for enhanced germination and growth has grown in popularity.  Here is a video that explains the recent growing popularity of corn seed treatments like quickroots:

Boosting Yield 

I you are looking to boost your yields in a high yield corn production environment, the treating your seed is an easy early season test that can not only show you a visual response, in addition to a yield response at the end the of the season

Testing Different Seed Treatments

One of the reasons that seed treatments are gaining popularity is the ease with which a grower can do a side-by-side trial in their own production system.  It's relatively easy to split their planter boxes and put treated seed in half of the planter and untreated in the other, leave all the other inputs identical and get a pretty good "check" or control plot with which to test yield responses and ROIs for a given product.  Here setting up a check plot with amplify-d from Conklin is discussed

Test Them on Your Farm

While we've seen positive yield responses in many of our trials, we encourage all growers to spend a little bit of money and do some trials on their own farm in order to gain confidence that they will be able to get returns on their investment of time and money which would justify seed treatments as an ongoing part of their cropping systems.