Corn Traits
Leading the industry in corn genetic combinations and technology for your fields
Quality products hand-selected by local experts to maximize your yield potential.
Integrated Refuge Traits
Insect protection in a single bag you know and trust
AgVenture integrated corn traits offer several benefits to farmers, including increased yield potential, improved insect protection, and better crop resilience. These traits offer a single bag solution for farmers in the Corn Belt.
Optimum® AcreMax® hybrids
AgVenture brand Optimum® AcreMax® hybrids provide multiple modes of action for above-ground insect protection in a single bag. These products target a broad range of pests, including corn borer, corn earworm, and fall armyworm. By effectively controlling these pests, products with the Optimum AcreMax trait help to maintain plant health and reduce the risk of yield loss due to insect damage.
Optimum® AcreMax® Leptra®
AgVenture brand Optimum® AcreMax® Leptra® products provide strong above-ground insect control with a superior level of efficacy against ear-feeding pests for cleaner ears and improved grain quality. These products provide protection against a broad spectrum of pests, including corn earworm, European corn borer, southwestern corn borer, fall armyworm, black cutworm and western bean cutworm.
Structured Refuge Traits
AgVenture’s corn portfolio includes structured refuge options for customers in geographies where planting a refuge is necessary. Our deep genetic pool allows us to provide solid insect protection traits that meet your refuge requirements.
Optimum® Intrasect®
AgVenture brand Optimum® Intrasect® hybrids are locally developed to perform in a wide range of environments and combine two proven and trusted traits to give your crop dual-mode above-ground insect protection. These hybrids provide another choice to maximize yield and preserve valuable Bt technology, with either a structured 5 percent refuge in the Corn Belt or 20 percent refuge required in EPA-designated cotton counties.
Optimum® Leptra®
AgVenture brand Optimum® Leptra® hybrids have a powerful pyramid of traits with three modes of action to provide superior control of above-ground pests, including corn borer, corn earworm and fall armyworm on on your acres. The pyramid of traits in Optimum Leptra deliver cleaner ears with less kernel damage through reduced ear feeding by these harmful pests. Optimum Leptra requires a structured refuge of 5 percent in the Corn Belt and 20 percent in EPA-designated cotton counties.
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Vorceed™ Enlist® corn
Corn rootworms are in trouble
AgVenture brand Vorceed™ Enlist® corn will combine next-generation corn rootworm protection with the power of the Enlist® weed control system to give you the flexibility to manage the toughest insects and weeds.
The latest in our trait technology will enable multi-year flexibility to manage your corn rootworm (CRW) acres through more options than any other CRW product with multiple modes of action to control insects and tough weeds to help you maximize your ROI opportunities. Superior yield potential and agronomics from one of the largest corn germplasm libraries in the industry round out the product package for a whole corn solution.
Maximize yield potential through tailored traits and genetics for a whole corn solution
New insect protection products will be available in a diverse lineup of high yield potential genetics across a wide range of maturities.
Experience exceptional control of CRW pests
Vorceed Enlist corn features three distinct modes of action to protect against corn rootworm, including an RNAi approach.
RNAi
CRW field studies have shown an approximate 99% reduction in adult emergence of Western corn rootworm and Northern corn rootworm compared to non-traited controls, helping to reduce future CRW populations and expand traited or non-traited seed and management opportunities for the following year.³
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PowerCore® Enlist® corn
Clean fields & happy neighbors
PowerCore® Enlist® corn is designed to help you control insects and the toughest weeds in your fields all season long.
Stacked with the Enlist® corn trait
The Enlist® corn trait allows for the ultimate weed management flexibility with tolerance to glyphosate, glufosinate, 2,4-D choline, and FOP herbicides in corn. Enlist® herbicides stay on target and have lower volatility than both dicamba and traditional 2,4-D formulations. Use Enlist herbicides to control late season emerged broadleaf weeds such as waterhemp and Palmer amaranth.
Three distinct Bt proteins
PowerCore® trait technology brings long-lasting insect control against key above-ground susceptible insects.
More flexibility for your acres
Enlist® corn gives you the ultimate weed management flexibility with four robust herbicide trait tolerances — including powerful 2,4-D choline in Enlist herbicides to get effective, neighbor-friendly weed control. Unlock the first-ever 2,4-D and FOP trait tolerances on acres of Enlist corn — providing you with additional modes of action to control broadleaves and grasses.
Qrome® Products
Advanced insect protection meets elite genetics
AgVenture brand Qrome® products feature proprietary molecular-stack technology utilizing proven insect protection and dual modes of action to defend against above- and below-ground pests. This innovative trait stack is compatible with a broad range of elite germplasm available only from Corteva Agriscience. With Qrome products, farmers get hybrids with strong agronomics and disease resistance plus advanced pest protection to maximize on-farm performance.
Qrome products provide defense against a number of pests including:
Proven protection in the field
- 5.4 bu/A yield advantage over competition in 2021 on-farm trials¹
- Molecular stack technology that enables top performing germplasm
- Effective control of corn rootworm
- Innovative technology in delivering above-ground and below-ground insect protection
- Efficient trait integration technology: bringing advanced hybrids to market faster
Optimum® AQUAmax® Hybrids
Developed to get more out of every drop of water and deliver a yield advantage, rain or shine.
Designed to make more out of every drop
AgVenture brand Optimum® AQUAmax® hybrids are equipped with strong agronomics and the latest technology packages, using less water per bushel and great opportunity for growth. These hybrids are bred to include key native traits that improve your crop’s root system and silk emergence, among other agronomic characteristics, to manage drought stress.
Tough from tassel to root
AgVenture brand Optimum® AQUAmax® hybrids include key native traits designed to help withstand drought stress and protect against yield loss. Hand-selected by your local independent seed company, these hybrids are locally adapted and equipped with strong agronomics. AgVenture provides Optimum AQUAmax hybrids in a wide range of maturities to benefit each of our independent seed company partners. These hybrids are available in a variety of technology packages for insect protection and herbicide tolerance. Talk to your AgVenture Yield Specialist about the best products for your drought-prone acres today.
Footnotes
Following burndown, Enlist Duo® and Enlist One® herbicides with Colex-D® technology are the only herbicides containing 2,4-D that are authorized for preemergence and postemergence use with Enlist® crops. Consult Enlist® herbicide labels for weed species controlled. Enlist Duo and Enlist One herbicides are not registered for use or sale in all states and counties; are not registered in AK, CA, CT, HI, ID, MA, ME, MT, NH, NV, OR, RI, UT, VT, WA and WY; and have additional subcounty restrictions in AL, GA, TN and TX, while existing county restrictions still remain in FL. All users must check “Bulletins Live! Two” no earlier than six months before using Enlist One or Enlist Duo. To obtain “Bulletins,” consult epa.gov/espp/, call 1-844-447-3813, or email . You must use the “Bulletin” valid for the month and state and county in which Enlist One or Enlist Duo are being applied. Contact your state pesticide regulatory agency if you have questions about the registration status of Enlist® herbicides in your area. ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW PESTICIDE LABEL DIRECTIONS. IT IS A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL AND STATE LAW TO USE ANY PESTICIDE PRODUCT OTHER THAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS LABELING. ONLY USE FORMULATIONS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY LABELED FOR SUCH USE IN THE STATE OF APPLICATION. USE OF PESTICIDE PRODUCTS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, 2,4-D-CONTAINING PRODUCTS NOT AUTHORIZED FOR USE WITH ENLIST CROPS, MAY RESULT IN OFF-TARGET DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE CROPS/AREAS AND/OR SUSCEPTIBLE PLANTS, IN ADDITION TO CIVIL AND/OR CRIMINAL PENALTIES. Additional product-specific stewardship requirements for Enlist crops, including the Enlist Product Use Guide, can be found at www.traitstewardship.com.
Enlist® Corn tab
¹ 2020-2021 Corteva Research trials. Moderate and high pressure locations. Product responses are variable and subject to any number of environmental, disease and pest pressures. Individual results
may vary. Multi-year and multi-location data are a better predictor of future performance. DO NOT USE THIS OR ANY OTHER DATA FROM A LIMITED NUMBER OF TRIALS AS A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN PRODUCT SELECTION.
² 2020-2021 efficacy trials. 17 moderate and high pressure locations.
³ 2020 Corteva Agriscience Tent Emergence trials. 6 locations.
* Events 59122 x MON87411 are the below-ground insect protection events in SmartStax PRO technology. Tested in Corteva Agriscience germplasm.
POWERCORE® is a registered trademark of Bayer Group. POWERCORE® multi-event technology developed by Corteva Agriscience and Bayer Group. Liberty®, LibertyLink® and the Water Droplet Design are registered trademarks of BASF. ®Roundup and Roundup Ready are registered trademarks of Bayer Group. Always follow IRM, grain marketing and all other stewardship practices and pesticide label directions. B.t. products may not yet be registered in all states. Check with your seed representative for the registration status in your state.
Liberty Link® and the Water Droplet Design are trademarks of BASF.
Corteva products are launched in accordance with Corteva Agriscience launch policies and Excellence Through Stewardship Product Launch Guidance. Grain and byproducts produced from Vorceed™ Enlist® corn material cannot be marketed in jurisdictions where not authorized, including Mexico, until the applicable approval is granted. Refer to http://www.biotradestatus.com/ for updated information on regulatory status, as well as http://www.traitstewardship.com/ for additional stewardship requirements.
*Product performance in non-irrigated environments is variable and depends on many factors such as the severity and timing of moisture deficiency, heat stress, soil type, management practices and environmental stress, as well as disease and pest pressures. All hybrids may exhibit reduced yield under water and heat stress. Individual results may vary.
Qrome® Products tab
¹Qrome product performance data is based on the average of 7,494 comparisons made in the United States in 2021. Comparisons are against all compeitors, segment matched, and within a +/- 3 CRM. Product performance is variable and subject to any number of environmental, disease and pest pressures. Individual results may vary and from year to year. Product label instructions must be followed at all times. No offer for sale, sale or use of these products are permitted prior to issuance of the required country, region or state registrations.
Agrisure® is a registered trademark of, and used under license from, a Syngenta Group Company. Agrisure® technology incorporated into these seeds is commercialized under a license from Syngenta Crop Protection AG. Roundup Ready® is a registered trademark used under license from Monsanto Company. Liberty®, LibertyLink® and the Water Droplet Design are trademarks of BASF. Qrome® products are approved for cultivation in the U.S. and Canada. They have also received approval in a number of importing countries, most recently China. For additional information about the status of regulatory authorizations, visit http://www.biotradestatus.com/