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Syngenta expands Duracade storage

Syngenta says it has expanded the network of grain handling facilities that can store its Agrisure Duracade grain domestically.

At Commodity Classic, product lead Duane Martin, said they have a network of more than 16-hundred “accepting” grain facilities, built with the help of their partner Gavilon, “Including grain elevators, feedlots, feed mills, ethanol plants. It’s important to note that about 85-percent of our corn grown in the U.S. is used domestically. There are places that can manage this corn. There are many outlets that growers can sell this corn to.”

Martin says they’ve expanded and enhanced that network for 2015, “We also offer growers a per-unit stewardship fee. This is $20 per unit to reward growers for the extra effort that they put in to properly steward Agrisure Duracade grain.”

Duracade corn was banned by China last year. Its ban on Syngenta’s Agrisure Viptera corn was lifted late last year.

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