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Success in Your Soils 2

New Products 2

Local Testing 2

Xtend Training Required 2

Digital Tools Insert

New Traits 3

Seed Treatment 3

Technology Use Agreement 3

Crop Shop 4

Pioneer: Building Momentum I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Your Local Pioneer Information Spring 2020

Lee Ag Services Spring Update

Ryan.Lee@plantpioneer.com

www.leeagservices.com

507-317-7452

In the seed business, research and development decisions made 7 to 10 years ago dictate the direction the business is headed today. Good news folks, Pioneer’s decision to increase investment, rethink how they do research, and ensure access to traits has positioned the organization in a good spot to deliver high quality products with the traits you want. Pioneer is growing. Customers across MN, WI, ND, & SD are planting more acres of Pioneer.

Last fall our new corn and soybean products we evaluated in plots and small strips consistently exceeded the results of current lineup which has been very competitive. We are raising the bar on performance. Let’s bring this home and make it easier to understand what it means to you.

Soybeans – Our A-series soybeans are industry leaders in yield and agronomics. We introduced an amazing new soybean P18A33X that continues to build that high performance Xtend lineup with excellent iron chlorosis tolerance. We continue to offer proven LL soybean products with excellent agronomics and now are building into Enlist E3 soybeans. I have sold all three trait packages so be sure to check with your neighbors before spraying!

Corn – We have transitioned to Qrome on many of the triple stack products. Optimized performance and expanded germplasm options make this a big deal! We have several solid new products that will replace some our prior leaders while maintaining or improving agronomic stability. Lumialza seed treatment has been added to your seed this year and it works with beneficial soil organisms to improve nutrient uptake while also controlling yield robbing nematodes. Protecting seed in the beginning will help maximize results in the end.

Pioneer’s digital ag offerings helps growers to improve their farm. See my special insert highlighting Pioneers Digital Ag Tools. Also, see updates on my weather station and advanced tools for my drone as well.

Wrap up solid products with my commitment to deliver useful services, and I hope you find your Pioneer seed purchase to be a valuable part of your business. Wishing you a successful 2020!

With you from the word GO! Ryan Lee

Corn: P9551Q, P9619AM, P0220Q, P0507Q

Soybeans: Xtend: P14A78X, P16A84X, P18A33X, P25A04X

Enlist: P13T61E, P21T43E, P22T18E, P24T35E

Limited quantities are available of these new products. Call for more info.

Mark your calendar for Wednesday, March 4 @ 9 AM to Noon for learn more about

area soil health efforts in Southern Renville Co. NRCS and Renville Co Soil & Water

are hosting a meeting at the Franklin Community Center to highlight soil conservation

opportunities and review programs available.

I am joining Brent Hilbert & Chris Lee to share what we have learned in the last 4 years

about soil health and utilizing cover crops in our cash crop systems. Look for some

discussion on the economics of soil health and how you can make your soils work for

you. See the detailed invite on my website.

Spring 2020 Page 2

Dicamba Herbicide Training Required

Make your Plan

Corteva’s Field Planning

tool is a customer

accessible feature. I use

this to create map based

field planting plans for

customers to document

planting records. It is the

starting point to build data

to manage your fields

throughout the season.

I can print and bind a book

for your personal field plan

for spring planting. Ask me

about building your

personal plan.

https://app.fields.corteva.com/

Local Testing Delivers Local Data

Annual training continues to be required for

the application of dicamba products to Xtend

soybean system for 2020. If you didn’t

attend an in person session, on-line training is

now available in Minnesota. The web training

can be accessed at this shortcut:

http://cloud01.bader-

rutter.com/DAAGFEXA7051/Minnesota/#/

New Products for 2020

Corteva Cash

Growers that had qualifying

purchases received Corteva

incentive dollars you received

by purchasing Pioneer

products. If you have any

questions or need some

guidance you can call me or

your local retailer should be

able to help you utilize your

earnings.

This winter we have been busy making plans to evaluate our products and to continue

to have good information to share with you. My agency will have… Two corn plots from

92 – 106 RM that includes our new and existing lineup including Qrome products. An

Xtend soybean plot to evaluate our A-series Xtend soybeans including several new

products for 2020. I will have a plot for the Enlist E3 soybeans as well and there will be

LL soybean plots across the area as well.

Pioneer is returning for its fourth year to conduct 13 acres of small plot hybrid testing on

our farm. Pioneer is developing products adapted to our area and is committed to

developing leader products for MN.

Pioneer invests extensive resources towards on farm trials to build information for our

Agronomy Research Summary books. Hopefully you have found the agronomy

summary valuable. You can access it in digital format from my website as well.

Success In Your Soils

More trials we’re

conducting:

One row Iron Chlorosis

One row Purple Corn

Seed Treatments

Emergence Flagging

Stand Establishment

DISCOUNT LOCK

Need more seed?

Receive the same

discounts on additional

purchases as you

received on your initial

paid invoice.

New products have arrived to market and will be in area fields.

Enlist E3™ soybeans are widely available in many brands for U.S. growers in

2020. What are Enlist E3™ soybeans? These industry-leading, herbicide-

tolerant soybeans provide tolerance to three herbicides:

• Enlist Duo® and Enlist One® herbicides (2,4-D choline)

• Glyphosate herbicides (Roundup)

• Glufosinate herbicides (Liberty)

Enlist E3™ soybeans acres are taking off at a faster pace than I anticipated. The flexibility and user-friendly system should deliver solid weed control. Just remember to invest in some type of pre to reduce early season weed pressure and widen the post application timing window for successful weed control. Corteva has a rebate program on the Enlist herbicide program. Check with me for more details.

Pioneer® brand Qrome® products are optimized high-performance, triple-stack

hybrids for growers. This new trait is easier to work with and unlocks more

germplasm to deliver new products. Much of our lineup has evolved to the

Qrome version to deliver triple stacked products replacing the prior AMXT

version.

Lee Ag Services Spring Update 2020

New Seed Traits Acres Expanding

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Corteva is moving to AgCelerate for Technology Use Agreements (TUAs)

What is AgCelerate and why is Corteva using this application to manage TUAs? AgCelerate (https://www.agcelerate.com/Home) is an industry platform used by all major seed and technology suppliers to manage seed technology use agreements and grower license information.

TUAs signed through AgCelerate will be shared across all Corteva seed brand invoicing systems and sales channels (e.g. Pioneer, Multi-channel Seed Brands, Retail, etc.). Therefore, the customer only has to sign one TUA.

• Simplification - Currently there are 20+ active TUAs in-use across the various sales channels. The Corteva TUA covers all products, therefore, reducing the management of multiple TUAs per customer to ONE. If you have signed an updated TUA this fall or winter, you are good to go. Otherwise, by this fall, I will need you to have an AgCelerate account, log in and select Corteva TUA, and digitally sign that agreement before I can invoice seed for 2021. I’m happy to help you navigate this change for Pioneer and get you setup going forward. Let me know if you would like some help. Thanks.

Fungicide Insecticide Biological Inoculant Included

$11.00/Unit

Lee Ag Services 507-317-7452

Pioneer Night at Target Field

Saturday night

August 22nd, 2020

Minnesota Twins v. Detroit Tigers

First Pitch at 6:05pm

True-Choice Prepay Savings Deadline March 13th is the deadline for growers to participate in the 2019 – 2020 TruChoice® Prepay Savings. Earn the 3-5% prepay

upfront savings on Corteva Crop Protection products purchased. You also receive extra seed discounts for those who

spend $7500 or more on Corteva crop protection chemicals. Give me a call if you have questions about this opportunity.

61583 Co Rd 16

Fairfax MN 55332

507-317-7452

WITH YOU - FROM THE -

WORD GO!

Access local weather data on

Weather Underground

Network

Lee Ag Services KMNCAMP3

Temperature

Wind

Rainfall

Solar Radiation

Winter Crop Shop – Agronomy & Product Update Meeting

March 6, 2020 10 am Lee Ag Services office

Agronomist Troy Elfering with be presenting:

- Agronomy discussion - Optimizing fertility levels

- New products for 2020 and beyond - Enlist soybeans ramp-up

- Granular Insights App for imagery - Bring your Questions - Lunch to Follow

Hope to see you there! Ryan Lee 507-317-7452

What is digital ag? It is field maps for

spring planting, variable rate planting

maps, satellite imagery, as planted maps,

as applied maps, harvest maps, drone

field mapping, Pioneer app, yield

estimating, new Granular Insights,

nitrogen management, fertility

management for P, K, and Lime, weather

data, and more.

Digital Tools - Special Insert

The digital world evolves so fast it is difficult to keep up. Corteva is committed

to building a user friendly and functional digital tools.

Granular is a digital ag solutions company that is moving the digital ag

platform to next level. Ease of use, consolidated solutions, valuable insights,

time saving directed scouting, simple profit and loss analysis of your fields,

and is compatible across 10 different monitor types.

Granular has helped Pioneer consolidate many digital tools with your farm

data in a single platform creating more value than ever in one place. If you

want to evolve in the digital ag world, there are opportunities at all levels to

grow your business into these tools. I am here to help you experience the

digital tools from the simplest no cost options to the full on data management

and integration into these tools. So if you have monitors you’re not sure how

to use the data from, I can help make that information into a useable product

at whatever level makes sense to your operation.

Digital Ag Suite of Tools from Corteva

Lee Ag Services Weather Station Update

Weather underground has re-designed their app and now the rainfall data

is displayed from my weather station again. Another thing I added last year

was the 4” soil temp and soil moisture sensor to the weather station. That

information can be found via the Davis Weatherlink under the Soil Node

heading. (See my website) I will

deploy the soil moisture and temp

sensors again this spring as soon as

I am able to dig them in the soil.

Pioneer Twins Night

Cover Crop economics

Drones – more than just pictures

It has been 4 years since I purchased

a drone and technology keeps evolving

in this area as well. New this year, sales

reps now have access to two new tools:

Drone Deploy and Corteva Flight.

Drone Deploy allows an autonomous

flight pattern be set to capture and stitch

photos together to make a real time

google earth like image of your field as

well as crop health mapping.

Corteva Flight will capture still

images and generate field stand

assessments at V3-V4 sized corn.

Contact me to utilize these useful

tools on your farm this summer.

Pioneer App

Granular Insights App

Corteva Fields

Web Based

Digital Solutions For Every Farmer – Let me help you navigate the options.

Digital Tool Function Value

Corteva Fields

Free Web Based

Creating Field Plans

Product Placement

Variable Rate Seeding

Creating and Viewing Fertility Plans -

subscription based service

Planting plans help you optimize your

product placement and planting

season organization.

Printed Planting Plan Book or

Pioneer App

Pioneer Seeds App

Free App

Services Included

Viewing Product Placement

Viewing Field Plans

Satellite Imagery (Viewable after a Week)

w/ Vegetation Index (Crop Health Index)

Yield Estimator

Find Me – Blue dot on scouting map

Planting Rate Estimator

Digital Bag Tag

Field Observations and Notes

Agronomy Resource Library

Maps: Hybrid, Yield, Seeding Rate

App for your smartphone allowing

you access to these useful tools

wherever you are.

Brings field plans, as planted maps,

imagery, crop scouting, yield

estimates into one place with the

ability to make geo tagged notes

throughout the season.

Digital bag tag and planting rate

estimator is now right in the field with

you as you plant. Efficient access to

important information.

Agronomic reference materials now

accessible in the app as well.

Granular Insights

App or Web based

Subscription based

services

Satellite Imagery (Real time after processing)

w/ Vegetation Index (Crop Health Index)

Crop Placement

Directed Scouting –notification of changes

Find Me– Blue dot on scouting map

Maps: Hybrid, Yield, Seeding Rate,

Planting Date, Revenue, Seed Cost, Return on

Seed

Agronomic Analysis Summaries

(Yield, Moisture, Harvest, Seeding Rate)

Financial Summaries (Revenue, Seed Cost,

Return on Seed)

Insights Analysis (Harvest Moisture, and

Coming Soon: Nitrogen Use, Seeding Rate, and

Planting Date)

This web and mobile application

helps farmers identify at-risk fields

faster and analyze agronomic and

financial data in one place.

Upload your planting and harvest

data and this will generate financial

profit/loss maps across the field. Use

real seed costs, set your own prices

and it is a powerful profit/loss tool.

The data is exclusively yours.

Granular is a company outside of

Pioneer so unless you share your

data, no one else can see it. You

have options to invite partner’s

access to your data if desired.

Lee Ag Services Spring Update 2020

Ryan.Lee@plantpioneer.com

www.leeagservices.com

507-317-7452