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Stacked Corn Traits
               

Stacked Trait Simplicity and Potential Yield Advantage
Planting biotech corn traits is simply an easier and potentially more profitable way to farm. You get effective, convenient insect control and herbicide tolerance built into hybrids that can give you outstanding insect and unsurpassed weed control when used with Roundup^® agricultural products to maximize your yields. And now you can tailor your hybrids for your fields. Simply combine the Roundup Ready^® Corn 2 trait with YieldGard^® Corn Borer, YieldGard Rootworm or YieldGard Plus and watch your yield potential grow. Get the results you want with biotechnology.

Benefits

• Outstanding insect and unsurpassed weed control system.
• Outstanding yield potential.
• Easier, potentially more profitable way to farm.
• Convenient control and herbicide tolerance built into hybrids.

Stack Up Your Benefits
Simply combine Roundup Ready^® Corn 2 with YieldGard^® Corn Borer, YieldGard Rootworm or YieldGard Plus.

Yield-Maximizing Traits that Really Stack Up

Roundup Ready Corn 2 System

• Outstanding crop safety and unsurpassed grass and broadleaf weed control.
• Simplicity and flexibility due to a wide window of application.
• The Roundup Ready Corn 2 System outyielded other herbicide systems in 73 percent of head-to-head comparisons.**

YieldGard Corn Borer

• Whole-season, in-plant protection from corn borer allows corn to maintain healthier stalks.
• More nutrient and moisture uptake mean greater yield potential.
• YieldGard Corn Borer seed corn can be offered with secondary pest control for protection against black cutworm, wireworm, white grub, seed corn maggot and early flea beetle. Check with your local seed dealer for details.

YieldGard Rootworm

• Effective and consistent in-plant protection from rootworms allows corn to develop a maximum root system for better nutrient and water uptake to optimize yields.
• Effective, consistent, simple rootworm protection is in the seed.
• YieldGard Rootworm seed corn is offered with Poncho^® 250 or Cruiser^® seed treatments. Cruiser controls wireworm, white grub, seed corn maggot and early flea beetle, while Poncho 250 controls these pests as well as black cutworm.

YieldGard Plus

• Effective and consistent in-plant protection from corn rootworms and corn borer for healthy roots and strong stalks.
• More moisture and more nutrients from a larger root system and healthier stalks lead to maximum yield potential.
• YieldGard Plus seed corn is offered with Cruiser^® or Poncho^® 250 seed treatments. Cruiser controls wireworm, white grub, seed corn maggot and early flea beetle, while Poncho 250 controls these pests as well as black cutworm. Contact your seed company representative for availability.

Before opening a bag of seed, be sure to read and understand the stewardship requirements, including applicable refuge requirements for insect resistance management, for the biotechnology traits expressed in the seed as set forth in the Monsanto Technology Agreement that you sign. By opening and using a bag of seed, you are reaffirming your obligation to comply with those stewardship requirements.

Grain harvested from products that bear this mark is fully approved for food and feed use in the United States and Japan, but is not approved in the European Union. You must find a market for this crop that will not ship this grain or its processed products to Europe. Appropriate markets for this grain include: domestic feed use or grain handlers that specifically agree to accept this grain and handle it appropriately. For more information on your grain market options, go to the American Seed Trade Association's website at www.amseed.org or call your seed supplier.

MARKET CHOICE^® is a registered certification mark used under license from ASTA.

Know Before You Grow^®, an information service provided by National Corn Growers Association at www.ncga.com.

Grandfather Clause

On April 18, 2005 the European Union (E.U.) notified that the following Monsanto corn traits already in the marketplace will be accepted (grandfathered) in processed feed: YieldGard Plus, YieldGard Rootworm, YieldGard Rootworm with Roundup Ready Corn 2, and YieldGard Corn Borer with Roundup Ready Corn 2. This action by the E.U. on these biotech products may result in additional marketing options for growers who plant seeds containing these traits. Growers must talk to their grain handler to learn more and to determine whether this development affects their ability to market or their decision to plant these traits. YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2 was not in the market, and therefore not qualified to be notified by the E.U. for acceptance in processed feed. Growers planting YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2 must talk to their grain handler to confirm the handler’s buying position for grain from this product. It is a violation of national and International law to move material containing biotech traits across boundaries into nations where import is not permitted.

Always read and follow pesticide label directions. Roundup Ready crops contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup agricultural herbicides. Roundup agricultural herbicides will kill crops that are not tolerant to glyphosate. Roundup Ready and YieldGard are registered trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC.

All products are not yet registered for use in all states. Check with your Monsanto representative for registration status in your state.

Growers should refer to Monsanto's Technology Use Guide on crop stewardship regarding the potential movement of pollen to neighboring crops. ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW PESTICIDE LABEL DIRECTIONS. Know Before You Grow^® is a registered service mark of National Corn Growers Association. For more information call 1-866-SELL-CORN.

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