Roundup Ready 2 Xtend Soybeans
Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® soybeans combine high yield potential with a built-in tolerance to both glyphosate and dicamba, giving your crop a head-start against tough grass and broadleaf weeds. It’s early season control to set your crop up for maximum yield potential.
Trait Highlights
Early Residual Weed Control
The short-term residual activity provided by dicamba controls small-seeded broadleaf weeds, giving you early-season control to help you get ahead of tough weeds and stay there.Stronger Yields
Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans are built on Roundup Ready 2 Yield® technology, proven to produce more beans per pod and more bushels per acre vs. original Roundup Ready® soybeans.Cleaner Fields
Protect the yield potential of your Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans with Roundup Xtend® 2 or XtendiMax® 2 herbicides, both with VaporGrip® Technology, for exceptional control of difficult and resistant broadleaf weeds including kochia, waterhemp and Canada fleabane.System Benefits
Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System
Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans are part of the Roundup Ready® Xtend Crop System. The Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System combines the high yield potential of Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans with the option of two enhanced chemistries: Roundup Xtend® 2 with VaporGrip Technology, an easy-to-use, premixed formulation and XtendiMax® 2 with VaporGrip Technology, a low-volatility dicamba-only formulation which can be tank mixed with a Roundup-branded product.
Both chemistry options provide control of difficult and resistant broadleaf weeds including kochia, waterhemp, giant ragweed and Canada fleabane. And the short-term residual benefits help to reduce in-crop flushes of these problem weeds.
The Dicamba Difference
Applying dicamba in the first herbicide pass provides short-term residual activity on small-seeded broadleaf weeds including lamb’s quarters, redroot pigweed and common ragweed to help maximize the yield potential of Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans.
Trials showed a 2.4 bu./ac.1 increase due to reduced early weed competition from the residual dicamba activity. The residual control provided by dicamba has also been shown to outperform 2,4-D in controlling broadleaf weeds. See the dicamba advantage at Bayer’s Chatham research farm.
1 Source: Bayer Market Development research trials, 2008 – 2014 (n=39). Average of 2.4 bu./ac. advantage over 2-pass.
Recommended application window for Roundup Ready 2 Xtend Soybeans
Genetic Comparison Field Scale Trials
The Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System is built on more than forty years of proven genetic breeding. In trials, Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans outperformed the competition by 2.3 bu./ac.
Glyphosate-Resistant Canada Fleabane Control
Glyphosate-resistant Canada fleabane continues to threaten the yield potential of soybean acres across Eastern Canada. In research trials, fields were treated with XtendiMax herbicide (dicamba) and 2,4-D. See how dicamba stood up to Canada fleabane.
XtendiMax® herbicide with VaporGrip® Technology at 0.7 L/ac.
2,4-D Ester 700 at 0.5 L/ac.
Source: 8 weeks after application in Thamesville, ON 2019.
Glyphosate-Resistant Kochia Control
Glyphosate-resistant kochia is quickly becoming one of the most difficult weeds for Western Canadian farmers to control. Adding dicamba as another mode of action in your toolkit can help combat glyphosate-resistant dicamba. See how Roundup Xtend (dicamba and glyphosate pre-mix) compared to a treatment of Enlist Duo™ (2,4-D and glyphosate pre-mix).
Roundup Xtend® herbicide with VaporGrip® Technology at 2 L/ac.
2,4-D Ester 700 at 0.5 L/ac.
Source: 35 days after application in Carseland, AB 2019.
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