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Pannar’s agronomy team boasts a century of collective experience in seed technology, agro-chemicals, mechanisation, soil science, marketing, markets and more. Our broad crop portfolio and geographic footprint means that our team has multi-crop experience across the varied microclimates in South Africa. Take advantage of their accurate, customised advice that maximises your unique cropping mix (rotation), cropping intensity and management preferences.
Pannar’s cultivars are developed from leading, diverse sources of genetics and best express their full genetic potential under good management practices. That is why our skilled agronomists are here to help you choose the right seed for your fields. Their objective, technical recommendations are based on data from scientific trials and aims to ensure that your crop performance lives up to or even exceeds your expectations, so use their expertise and service to your benefit. Honest, reliable, involved and knowledgeable, they offer a complete seed line-up and management guidelines to ensure sound crop production and risk mitigation whilst protecting the environment and preserving our natural resources for our future. Trust our agronomists to help you identify environmental risks and devise methods of reducing these risks to boost your efficiency and set you up for success.
We have a wealth of agronomic information and we’re going to help you find what you’re looking for and introduce you to products and services you never knew you needed! It will make searching for technical information online even more streamlined and insightful.
For the past few years, Pannar has been developing a digital platform to enable farmers to collect farm data, visualise it and analyse it to extract meaningful insights that help them make more informed decisions to achieve better yields and overall profitability. We’re currently testing its powerful query capabilities on real farm datasets and we’re excited to bring you this new innovation in 2025.
The Panagri® practical farming research and the Panacea® complete seed and crop protection initiatives are outlined below:
The Panagri® practical farming research initiative seeks to provide farmers with practical advice on how to optimise all the disciplines that play key roles in progressive crop production, including fertilisation practices, cultivar selection, optimal plant population, crop rotation, tillage and use of agricultural chemicals.
Panacea® seed and crop protection is the label under which Pannar develops seed treatment programmes for optimal germination, plant population and seedling protection as well as first-class advice for the identification and control of diseases and pests that occur on farmers’ crops from time-to-time. This includes Fungicide and Insecticide Spray Programmes, which offer guidelines for the control of such outbreaks (including chemical control of stalk borer on conventional and glyphosate tolerant hybrids).
High yield potentials start with a uniform and healthy plant population.The Panacea® seed treatment package protects your seed and seedlings from a variety of early-season insects, soil- and seed-borne diseases for a great head start. Panacea® seed treatments are designed, verified and proven to work with Pannar® brand genetics, giving farmers a higher level of confidence in their seed treatment options.
You’ve invested in outstanding Pannar® brand genetics for your field. We’ve invested in protecting their performance potential.
Panacea® seed treatments address:
■ Plantability;
■ Cold tolerance;
■ Plant population establishment;
■ Singulation; and
■ Early vigour.
We evaluate hundreds of product concept combinations to develop the right seed treatment formulations for our genetic line-up. Each year, we validate those combinations in labs, greenhouses and on farmers’ fields. Our seed treatment development process relies on 30 000 research plot evaluations annually.
Panacea® seed treatments capitalise on over 100 years of crop protection know-how and an understanding of what farmers need and how they farm. Our seed treatment combinations are carefully evaluated at the Corteva Agriscience Centre of Seed Applied Technologies (C-SAT) - an all-in-one facility that’s part laboratory, testing centre and seed treatment plant.
Plantability: Maximising seed flow and planting precision
Application: Refining processes to work across seed properties (size, shape, hybrid/cultivar) and environmental conditions
Seed safety: Ensuring treatments don’t adversely affect seed germination
Stewardship: Minimising potential adverse effects on people and the environment
Efficacy: Evaluating protection and vigour, to confirm the seed treatment performs as expected, even in challenging environments
Regulatory: Meeting regulations and guidelines
Only seed treatments that excel in this rigorous process earn the Panacea® mark of assurance.
Through our Field Test Network, our treated seed is evaluated by farmers. It goes into the ground using real planters, under real conditions. On-farm testing is combined with our large-scale IMPACT™ testing programme, where we conduct more than 60 000 plot evaluations each year. This testing ensures that Panacea® seed treatments work no matter which Pannar® brand hybrids or cultivars you plant. Our extensive evaluation process also means that seed treatments which earn the Panacea® mark of assurance fit with responsible farming practices, minimising exposure to off-target species and the environment and helping farmers reduce the amount of active ingredient they need to apply to their fields.
Under the auspices of the Panacea® programme, Pannar recommends fungicide and insecticide spray programmes that enable the farmer to benefit from the results of Pannar’s on-farm trial results to ultimately protect crop yield potential and/or quality.
Certain hybrids have demonstrated significant yield improvement when treated with an appropriate fungicide spray programme, particularly in high disease pressure situations. Depending on the hybrid selected, the season and environment, spray programmes comprising one, two, or more fungicide applications can deliver economic yield benefits and improved agronomic performance. Speak to your Pannar sales representative to learn about which hybrid and environment combinations are likely to show a strong reaction to the application of fungicides.
With regards to insect control, Pannar recommends the implementation of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy. These practices include elements such as crop rotation, cultural and biological control tactics (including Bt-protected maize traits), pest scouting and the use of appropriate pest thresholds when implementing insecticide application.
Time of Applicant | Two (2) Spray Programme | Three (3) Spray Programme |
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FIRST APPLICATION | Strobilurin/ Triazole Combination Fungicide1 | Strobilurin/ Triazole Combination Fungicide1 |
SECOND APPLICATION | Triazole or Triazol/Carbendazim Fungicide2 | Triazole or Triazol/Carbendazim Fungicide2 |
THIRD APPLICATION REQUIRED | Triazole or Triazol/Carbendazim Fungicide2 |
1 Examples of products in this group include Acanto® Plus (Corteva Agriscience), Amistar Top® (Syngenta), Abacus® or Abacus® Advance (BASF), Nativo® (Bayer).
2 Examples of products in this group include Artea® (Syngenta), Duett® or Duett® Ultra (BASF), Zantara® (Bayer), Miravis Neo (Syngenta).
3 Try to avoid spraying during the V10-VT growth stages, which are high risk for *Arrested Ear Development (AED) as well as flowering (pollination problems).
Important: Refer to the label for rates and instructions. Use only as indicated on the label.
NOTE: Important to rotate products as per spray programme and not to continue using the same product throughout the season. This is to prevent the build-up of resistance in the pathogen to a fungicide. (FRAC = Fungicide Resistance Action Committee. The purpose of FRAC is to provide fungicide resistance management guidelines to prolong the effectiveness of “at risk” fungicides and to limit crop losses should resistance occur).
Put the power back in your hands in the fight against key above-ground pests with PowerCore™ technology - a high-performing, insect-resistant seed trait that effectively helps to protect crops from destructive above-ground lepidopteran pests, such as the Maize Stalk Borer and Spotted Maize Stem Borer.
The PowerCore™ trait comprises three different Bacilus thuringiensis (Bt) -proteins, each targeting insects differently and thereby helping to prolong the durability of the technology. PowerCore™ technology also confers herbicide resistance to glyphosate herbicides. Its unique combination of three Bt-proteins with glyphosate tolerance give it excellent control of pests and weeds. This exceptional trait technology is now available in six new maize hybrids with excellent top-end yield potential.
Yellow Maize Hybrids with PowerCore™ Technology | White Maize Hybrids with PowerCore™ Technology |
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PAN 3P-924PW | PAN 3P-973PW |
PowerCore™ multi-event technology developed by Corteva Agriscience and Monsanto.PowerCore™ is a trademark of Monsanto Technology LLC.
Maize in Africa is attacked by many lepidopteran pests. These pests cause severe damage to maize and crop loss varies depending on the time and level of stem borer infestation.
Maize Stalk Borer (Busseola fusca) is the most injurious of maize stem borer in South Africa and occurs at altitudes ranging from sea level to 2 000 m above sea level. It is widespread throughout the maize production triangle of the country.
Spotted Maize Stem Borer (Chilo partellus) is a stem boring insect that is a serious threat to maize as well as milet and sorghum. These stem borer caterpillars damage crops by boring or tunnelling inside their plant stems.
PowerCore™ multi-event technology developed by Corteva Agriscience and Monsanto. PowerCore™ is a trademark of Monsanto Technology LLC.
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Stewardship is a life cycle approach to product management. It is the responsible way to manage our technologies and plant products, from their discovery and development, to their use and eventual discontinuation. Corteva Agriscience is committed to bringing new technologies to the marketplace in a responsible manner and promotes the practices of responsible Insect Resistance Management (IRM), Herbicide Resistance Management, and Grain Marketing decisions, to ensure crop options.
As a trait developer, Corteva Agriscience helps to ensure that biotech trait technologies are grown and marketed in a manner that meets all regulatory requirements in South Africa. Growers must sign a Technology Use Agreement (TUA) before obtaining, planting, or growing seed products containing biotech trait technologies. A TUA must be signed annually, as it is valid for one (1) year only.
Stewardship is achieved by adherence to the TUA, Product Use Guides, and Product Labels. The Product Use Guides set forth the requirements for growing Corteva seed products containing trait technologies. These requirements include adhering to applicable IRM and Herbicide Resistant Management practices. Compliance with the terms in the Product Use Guides and the TUA delays the development of insect resistance to incorporated plant protection technologies and helps to maintain the long-term durability of these technologies. It is essential to maintaining growers’ access to and use of trait technologies.
