1-7 FB Sugarbeet winners

 Season ends Sweeter for Sugarbeet Growers

According to Bayer Crop Science, Poncho^® Beta seed-applied insecticide made for a sweeter world in 2010 with a strong start to a great crop. Now after the harvest, five growers are enjoying even more of the sweet life with winnings from the Sweeter World Sweepstakes.

We’ve talked endlessly about how ag producers are going high tech and it turns out the entire industry is following suit. Bayer had four first place winners, who, oh by the way were sugar beet growers from across the nation. The lucky contestants won a new Apple iPad^®. The iPads come WiFi enabled, so growers can access their email, go to websites for weather and commodity prices, and update farm records from the field. If that isn’t twenty-first century farming I don’t know what is. The first place winners included David Marchbanks of Parma, Idaho. Here he is talking about the Poncho^® Beta seed-applied insecticide: “It’s a disease treatment that they’re putting on that will even help after emergence for insects. Are you concerned about not being able to use Roundup Ready? Yes everybody is.”