New soybean varieties from DuPont Pioneer face the toughest challenge in the final year of research testing. During this research stage, soybean varieties are placed in IMPACT (Intensively Managed Product Advancement Characterization and Training) trials on growers’ farms to ensure product performance is up to the high standards set by Pioneer.
近日，先锋牌34个大豆品种通过先锋研发、田间销售和农艺技术服务团队的终审，将于2013年上市种植。
“Our goal is to provide a full complement of soybeans that yield consistently for farmers year after year,” says Don Schafer, DuPont Pioneer senior soybean marketing manager. “The Pioneer research, sales and agronomy teams dig hard to analyze the local disease and agronomic challenges throughout soybean-growing areas and develop products and traits to address those challenges within each region.”
根据 美国农业部 大豆产量预测为 26.9 亿蒲式耳，比去年减少 12%。根据 8 月 1 日的情况，预计平均单产为每英亩 36.1 蒲式耳，比去年下降 5.4 蒲式耳。如果实现，平均单产将是 2003 年以来的最低水平。大豆出口量减少 5500 万蒲式耳，至 10.55 亿蒲式耳，主要原因是供应减少。
2012/13 年度美国季节平均大豆价格预计保持在每蒲式耳 $15.00 至 $17.00 不变。
“This final evaluation on growers’ farms helps us develop a profile of where the product fits on each acre for our customers,” Schafer says. The 2013 class of Pioneer soybean varieties is a solid group of products, he says, with performance packages of agronomic and defensive traits that provide choices to match the right product with the right acre.
资料来源：杜邦先锋，FCI 工作人员编辑