Boost seed performance with ease

Today’s seed treatments are easier to use than ever and the most economical way to reduce yield and quality losses from common diseases, like smut, fusarium, root and seed rot.

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7 REASONS TO TREAT

All seed is an investment worth protecting

All seed is an investment, including farm-saved seed. Treating your seed helps ensure uniformity in your fields which keeps weeds down, makes timing your herbicide and fungicide applications and harvest easier. Simply put, treated crops like those treated with Raxil PRO Shield emerge faster and stronger, which seen in a 2016 trial increased plant stand in 90% of the trial site.

Conditions that favour soil-borne disease – seed treatment data by Bayer SeedGrowth

Source: 20 Bayer SeedGrowth internal wheat trials (Western Canada 2016).
Your results may vary according to agronomic, environmental and pest pressure variables.

Comparing wheat seedings in an unrelated crop – seed treatment data from Bayer Market Development

Comparing wheat seedlings in an untreated crop (middle) vs treated with Raxil^® PRO (Right) or Raxil^® PRO SHIELD^® (Left)
Source: Bayer Market Development

It’s hard to go underground

Once seed is in the ground and a soil- or seed-borne disease starts to attack, there’s nothing you can do to prevent that crop loss. Seed treatments are the only way to protect your emerging crop against early-season diseases and below-ground insects.

Disease is definitely present in your soil

The fact is, the pathogens that cause most common and damaging soil-borne diseases are always present in prairie soils and will cause root rots and other diseases when conditions favour them.

Conditions that favour soil-borne disease
Source: Bayer SeedGrowth

Seed protection inside and around the seed – seed treatment data by BioVision Seed Labs

Raxil Pro and Raxil ProShield are both contact and systemic cereal seed treatments that protect you from seed and soil borne diseases. The untreated seed sample can be seen on the left and is full of disease.
Source: BioVision Seed Labs. Reproduced with permission.

Disease might be present on and in your seed

The only way to know for sure is to get seed tested at an accredited lab. But many pathogens that cause head blights, smuts and leaf disease start off on seed that looks clean to the naked eye. Only a well-applied seed treatment can protect an emerging plant from diseases you can’t always see.

Spring can be hard on a crop

Snow in May? Frost in June? You know it’s possible. Seed treatments help give emerging crops an extra layer of protection through unpredictable spring weather. Treated crops emerge faster, stronger and more evenly than untreated crops for better performance and yield potential.

Wheat treatment comparison – seed treatment data by Bayer Market Development

When treated with a seed treatment, seedlings develop a more robust root system and emerge faster
Source: Bayer Market Development

Wheat field with wireworm damage on a hillside – seed treatment data by Bayer Market Development

Wheat field with wireworm damage on a hillside
Source: Bayer Market Development

Wireworms are sneaky (and costly)

Wireworms cause crop damage that often looks like something else, like a seeder miss, a dry patch or herbicide carryover. One Alberta study pegs wireworm damage to wheat crops at 1% to 50% annually^[1]. Ouch. The problem is they do all of this underground so seed treatments are the only viable tool to use against them.

Your cows care

Your cows won’t get sick eating smutted wheat or barley, but they might go hungry. Smut replaces grain heads with spores so there’s no feed value left. Why spend all that time, fuel and energy growing and harvesting empty grain when a simple seed treatment can help ensure grain heads filled with nutrition, not black dust.

Smutted wheat heads – seed treatment data by Bayer Market Development

Smutted wheat heads
Source: Bayer Market Development

How to Treat

Treating was never simpler!

There are four ways to get your seed treated quickly and easily.

STORM Pro Seed Treater
Source: Bayer Market Development

1

Purchase certified seed that’s already treated

2

Take your farm saved seed to a custom seed treater for cleaning and treating

3

On-location seed treaters come to you with their own specialized treating equipment.

4

On-farm is when you do it yourself, either well before the season so that the seed treatment has sufficient drying time on the seed or just in time when you’re ready to go in the field – both can be quick and easy with today’s equipment.

Treated vs untreated wheat seed
Source: Bayer Market Development

One-stop support

Whether you’re interested in seed treatment products themselves, on-farm treating equipment options, replicated trial results, a list of custom treaters in your area, how long it takes to treat 100 bushels of wheat, even why cereal treatments are always red….the Bayer SeedGrowth^® team has answers and solutions designed to work for you. Our goal is your success.

Equipment support and setup

Technical support

Application tips and advice

Seed treatment use

Seed testing

Got seed treatment questions right now? We have answers. Just visit Find a Rep where you can send a direct message to your local Bayer representative.

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Videos

How to Scout for Pea Leaf Weevil

SeedGrowth Specialist, Beth Brown explains how to identify Pea Leaf Weevil damage in your fields and how an application of an insecticide seed treatment can defend your pulse crops against Pea Leaf Weevil feeding.

How to Scout for Wireworms in Cereal Crops

Bayer SeedGrowth Specialist, Beth Brown shows you how to scout for and manage Wireworms in your cereal crops. She shares why Raxil PRO SHIELD, a systemic seed treatment, is the best seed treatment for your crops.

How to Maximize your Seed Treatment with any Equipment

There are a lot of factors that go into getting the most out of your seed treatment. What is the quality of the seed you’re starting out with? How does the temperature of your seed effect treating? This video takes the guess work out of it so you can avoid costly mistakes and make sure you’re always covered.

How to Read your Seed Test and What does it mean?

Bayer SeedGrowth^™ Specialist Brittnye Kroeker takes you through the results of a standard seed test explaining what to test for, how to interpret the results and how those results affect the decisions you make during the season.

The Advantage of Using Raxil

Lee Markert of Markert Seeds shares how Raxil protects their cereal crops and ensures a better yield.

UCAN2 Setup

Contact your rep for more information on getting a UCAN2 treater

How to Scout for Pea Leaf Weevil

How to Scout for Wireworms in Cereal Crops

How to Maximize your Seed Treatment with any Equipment

How to Read your Seed Test and What does it mean?

The Advantage of Using Raxil

UCAN2 Setup

Articles

Fight Seed- and Soil-Borne Diseases

You have two weapons at your disposal in the battle against seed and soil disease: seed testing and seed treatments. Employing these tactics together enables you to better detect disease present on your seed and to protect it from pathogens residing in the soil.

Maximize your Seed Treatments

Protecting your seed from day one is an important way to guarantee better performance throughout the season. Seed treatments provide a range of solutions against seed- and soil-borne diseases and insects, and work from the ground up to protect your investment.

Protecting Your Cereals In Western Canada

Seed is most vulnerable to diseases before emergence and before the plant’s own defense mechanisms kick in when photosynthesis begins. Seed treatments effectively protect seed against seed- and soil-borne diseases before and during plant emergence.

How To Minimize Damage when Treating Dry Pea Seed

Pea seed can be susceptible to mechanical damage during harvest, handling, storage and seeding but there are ways to reduce the potential of this damage during treating.

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¹Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. (2014). Agri-Facts: Practical information for Alberta’s Agriculture Indiustry [https://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/ba3468a2a8681f69872569d60073fde1/4eae070a95abe2a787257c7d0072a189/$FILE/622-32.pdf].

²2021 BPI Report – Cereal Seed Treatments

Always read and follow label directions. Bayer, Bayer cross, Bayer SeedGrowth^®, EverGol^®, Raxil^®, Stress SHIELD^® and Trilex^® are trademarks of the Bayer Group. Used under license. Bayer CropScience Inc. is a member of CropLife Canada. ©2022 Bayer Group. All rights reserved.

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Boost seed performance with ease

7 REASONS TO TREAT

All seed is an investment worth protecting

It’s hard to go underground

Disease is definitely present in your soil

Disease might be present on and in your seed

Spring can be hard on a crop

Wireworms are sneaky (and costly)

Your cows care

How to Treat

Treating was never simpler!

One-stop support

Equipment support and setup

Technical support

Application tips and advice

Seed treatment use

Seed testing

Videos

How to Scout for Pea Leaf Weevil

How to Scout for Wireworms in Cereal Crops

How to Maximize your Seed Treatment with any Equipment

How to Read your Seed Test and What does it mean?

The Advantage of Using Raxil

UCAN2 Setup

How to Scout for Pea Leaf Weevil

How to Scout for Wireworms in Cereal Crops

How to Maximize your Seed Treatment with any Equipment

How to Read your Seed Test and What does it mean?

The Advantage of Using Raxil

UCAN2 Setup

Articles

Fight Seed- and Soil-Borne Diseases

Maximize your Seed Treatments

Protecting Your Cereals In Western Canada

How To Minimize Damage when Treating Dry Pea Seed

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