September 02, 2010
Roundup Price Reduction Announced at Farm Progress Show
Published in Hoosier Ag Today
The Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa has been hit with some heavy rains, but the show continues into its final day Thursday after good crowds turned out despite the rain the first two days.
Among the news coming from the show is a Roundup price cut announced by Monsanto. Jason Hoag is a DEKALB corn marketing manager. He told HAT, “When we look at the necessity to have a complete herbicide system, we’ve listened to farmer customers who want to make sure they’ve got the residual option, but they also want to make sure they’re in a place where they feel good about what they’re paying for Roundup. If you look at PowerMAX and WeatherMAX in terms of the performance they’ll deliver vs. some of the generic products in the marketplace, superior control, superior crop safety and some additional overall benefits, and then we wanted to complement that with providing a good total herbicide system for them and their Roundup Ready crops.”
Farmers can get the details of the Roundup reductions from their local ag retailer.
Monsanto also announced a new Roundup residual rewards program. Hoag explained, “If a farmer starts with an approved residual herbicide either in soybeans or corn and then follows that up with the 22-ounce rate of Roundup WeatherMAX, they can earn a residual rebate of $1.50 per acre. And there is a similar program with 22 ounces of Roundup PowerMAX product where they can earn a rebate of $1 per acre.”
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