New YieldGard VT Triple® stacked hybrids provide yield protection that combines leading insect and weed-control technology to deliver outstanding stalk and root protection and convenient weed control with the Roundup Ready® 2 Technology System. The new stacked-hybrid technology offers six performance advantages. Learn more about YieldGard VT Triple® stacked hybrids technology here.
When it comes to root and stalk protection and weed control, nothing stacks up to maximize your corn’s full genetic potential like YieldGard VT Triple®. This outstanding technology provides:
- More available moisture and nutrients
- More uptake and translocation of moisture and nutrients
- Less lodging
- Less ear drop
- Broad-spectrum weed control with the Roundup Ready® 2 Technology System
YieldGard VT Triple® hybrids are created using a process called VecTran™ technology, which stands for Vector-stack Transformation. To produce stacked traits with enhanced performance, VecTran™ technology combines two traits using a single DNA-insertion process that is:
- More efficient
- More consistent
- Less time-consuming
This highly efficient breeding process means elite germplasm with better, higher-yielding traits can be available for your farm operation six to 12 months faster.
VecTran™ technology is a more precise process for gene insertion.
YieldGard VT Triple® contains a highly active and more consistent promoter of the rootworm gene. The promoter is a biotech switch that turns on the gene to produce the insect-control protein and more effectively distribute it throughout the root system. This improved protein expression provides:
YieldGard® Rootworm | 
YieldGard VT Triple® |
Both samples show tissue infected with first-generation rootworm. The green dye marks the rootworm protein, showing how YieldGard VT Triple® delivers a more consistent level of insecticidal protein. |
YieldGard VT Triple® protects against:
- Early flea beetles
Earworms European corn borers Mexican corn rootworms Northern corn rootworms
| - Seed corn maggots
- Southwestern corn borers
- Western corn rootworms
- White grubs
- Wireworms
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YieldGard VT Triple® hybrids have consistently scored better in root protection than first-generation YieldGard® hybrids in more than 30,000 comparison root digs. Roots with the new technology reach full root mass, growing deeper to receive even more moisture and nutrients from the subsoil.
More than 30,000 root digs prove better rootworm control with YieldGard VT Triple® vs. YieldGard® Plus, the industry standard for protection.
YieldGard VT Triple® contains Roundup Ready® 2 Technology for convenient, broad-spectrum weed control. Simply select the Roundup Ready® rate of a residual herbicide for extended early-season weed control. The selected herbicide rate will provide enough residual weed control to widen your post-application window without sacrificing efficacy on your toughest early-season weeds. Plus, the Roundup Ready® rate helps you reduce the risk of developing weed resistance to glyphosate. YieldGard VT Triple® provides an excellent way to control weeds and costs.
The Roundup Ready® 2 Technology System delivers the peace of mind that comes with proven crop safety. In seven years of field trials, lowering the risk of crop injury delivered up to 5.5 bushels an acre more than conventional corn herbicide programs. The Roundup Ready® program, using the same products for all programs, outyielded other programs in 69 percent of the trials.
Because Roundup Ready® 2 Technology was specifically designed for Roundup® agricultural herbicides, when you compare it with other non-glyphosate postemergent herbicide programs using the same hybrid, you can receive the following advantages:
Superior crop safety
Less potential yield loss from crop injury
Up to 5.5 bushels per acre more yield potential
Up to $18 per acre more profit potential*
Better yields in 69 percent of the trials
View Chart : Roundup Ready® 2 Technology Outyields Conventional Herbicide Programs
YieldGard® Plus with Roundup Ready® Corn 2 provides more effective and consistent protection than other control methods against western, northern and Mexican corn rootworms; European and southwestern corn borers; black cutworms; sugarcane borers; fall armyworms; stalk borers; wireworms; white grubs; seed corn maggots; early flea beetles; and earworms. You also get larger root systems, greater standability and larger ears. This can mean healthier corn plants and higher yield potential. The convenience of Roundup Ready® Corn 2 provides application flexibility and outyields other post-emergent systems.
YieldGard® Plus is the first corn technology to deliver whole-season, in-plant protection against European, southwestern and sugarcane borers as well as effective and consistent protection against western, northern and Mexican corn rootworms, for a zone of protection throughout the plant. YieldGard® Plus also suppresses earworms, fall armyworms and stalk borers. Conventional corn is only protected where and when you apply insecticides for a smaller area of protection and a smaller yield potential.
YieldGard® Plus also offers in-the-bag protection against black cutworms, wireworms, white grubs, seed corn maggots and early flea beetles. No seed treatment, soil insecticide or other technology protects your yield potential against more insects. And nothing gives you the maximum root health and stalk strength of YieldGard® Plus.
With YieldGard® Plus you get:
Less insecticide handling
Less time spent scouting for damage
More efficient harvest due to reduced lodging
Roundup Ready® Corn 2 System built-in flexibility:
Starting clean with a residual increases your flexibility for maximum weed control and helps you manage around the weather.
In general, weed flushes should be controlled before they exceed 4 inches in height. However, if the weather doesn’t cooperate, Roundup WeatherMAX® gives you a wider window of application—up to 20-inch weed height—than other postemergent herbicides.
You have the opportunity to control late annual weed flushes.
Outstanding weed control reduces weed competition and leaves more moisture and nutrients for the corn.
Fuller roots have more mass to absorb moisture and nutrients.
Healthier stalks can better transport moisture and nutrients.
Proven crop safety of Roundup WeatherMAX® enables moisture and nutrients to reach undamaged leaves.
Protection is in the seed, so it’s more effective and consistent than traditionally applied insecticide and seed treatments.
Protected roots reach full mass potential.
Stalks can stay healthy and strong for reduced lodging and ear drop.
Now you can benefit from a combination of corn technologies with stacked-trait hybrids. Simply choose hybrids that combine Roundup Ready® Corn 2 with YieldGard® Corn Borer, YieldGard® Rootworm or YieldGard® Plus.
Whether you follow a pre- and postemergent program or only spray postemergence, Roundup Ready® Corn 2 fits your system. Engineered to work with Roundup® agricultural herbicides, the Roundup Ready® Corn 2 System can give you outstanding yield potential without the crop injury other post herbicides can cause—and that can add up to $12 per acre to your bottom line.*
YieldGard® Corn Borer protects the corn plant from the inside out, so you get healthier stalks. It allows the corn plant to maximize the amount of moisture and nutrients carried up through the stalk to the ear.
YieldGard® Rootworm protects roots from the inside out so you can get fuller roots, which maximizes the amount of moisture and nutrients that are absorbed by the plant.
YieldGard® Plus protects the entire corn plant from the inside out, so you get fuller roots and healthier stalks. This system maximizes the amount of moisture and nutrients that are absorbed and carried up through the plant to the ear.