While finalizing seed sales and making seed deliveries to your growers who plant corn hybrids containing HERCULEX® Insect Protection, make sure that they have signed a Grower Agreement.

Growers must submit a valid, executed Grower Agreement with Dow AgroSciences to legally obtain, plant and grow hybrids that contain HERCULEX technology from Dow AgroSciences. A single agreement covers the grower for all HERCULEX traits. Failure to comply with the terms of the Grower Agreement can result in growers losing the privilege to grow HERCULEX corn.

You can obtain HERCULEX Grower Agreements on behalf of your growers by calling
1-877-4-TRAITS (1-877-487-2487). Grower Agreements also can be completed electronically online at HERCULEX.net.

Signing a Grower Agreement with Dow AgroSciences entitles growers to receive the most current HERCULEX® Product Use Guide and other periodic updates relating to HERCULEX. The Product Use Guide also provides details on the different ways that growers can fulfill the refuge requirements when planting corn containing in-plant insect protection traits.

Signing a Grower Agreement also obligates your growers to market their grain corn through proper channels. Grain harvested from corn hybrids that bear the Market Choices® symbol is fully approved for food and feed use in the United States and Japan, but is not approved in the European Union.

Grain from hybrids containing HERCULEX XTRA Insect Protection or stacks of HERCULEX XTRA and Roundup Ready® Corn 2 must be fed on-farm, used domestically or delivered to elevators or grain handlers that specifically agree to accept the grain and handle it appropriately, including not shipping the grain or its processed products (such as gluten) to the European Union.

For more information on your grain market options, including countries where these products are approved for grain import, go to the American Seed Trade Association’s Web site or call Great Lakes at 1-800-257-SEED.

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