Once the fire ants are gone, it’s time to turn your backyard into the ultimate retreat!

Enter the TopChoice Backyard Sweepstakes now and you’ll qualify to win:

One of 8 Grand Prizes: $25,000 to makeover your yard into the backyard of your dreams.
One of 24 First Prizes: $5,000 to enhance your backyard with outdoor amenities like a deluxe gas grill, backyard spa or spacious addition to your patio or deck.
One of 40 Second Prizes: $2,000 toward new patio furniture, a new fire pit, a luxurious backyard hammock or other outside upgrades

TOPCHOICE® BACKYARD SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE OR SALES PRESENTATION NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. How to Enter: To enter the TopChoice® Backyard Sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes”), between 12:00 am CST on 4/17/06 and 11:59 pm CST on 7/31/06 (“Sweepstakes Period”), call the number provided to you in the advertising where you heard about this program 1-888-678-ANTS: radio announcement; 1-877-890-ANTS: TV announcement; 1-866-9TOPCHOICE: direct mail piece; 1-877-567-ANTS: public relations; and provide your name, complete address and phone number (with area code). Limit one (1) entry per person/household for the entire Sweepstakes Period. All entries become the exclusive property of Sponsor and will not be returned.

2. Eligibility: Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the following market areas: Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida metropolitan area; West Palm Beach, Florida metropolitan area; Orlando/Daytona Beach, Florida metropolitan area; Jacksonville, Florida metropolitan area; Columbia, South Carolina metropolitan area; Charleston, South Carolina metropolitan area; Houston, Texas metropolitan area and Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas metropolitan area (each, a “Market Area”), who are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence (and at least 18), except employees and their immediate families (spouse, parents, siblings and children and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and household members, whether or not related) of Bayer Crop Science LP (“Sponsor”), Marketing Drive PSG, and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies and any other individuals engaged in any way in the development, production, printing, distribution or execution of this Sweepstakes. Void outside the Market Areas and where prohibited. This Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws.

3. Selection of Winners: Potential winners for each Market Area will be selected in a random drawing to be conducted on or about 8/7/06 from all eligible entries received for each Market Area, by an independent judging organization whose decisions are final and binding on all matters relating to this Sweepstakes. Potential winners will be notified by overnight mail and/or phone. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received for the applicable Market Area. Non-winning eligible entries received from one Market Area drawing will not “roll-over” into subsequent Market Area drawings.

4. Prizes: Eight (8) Grand Prizes (one (1) per Market Area): A $25,000 Backyard Makeover, to be awarded as a check made payable to the winner for $25,000 (Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”):$25,000 each). Twenty Four (24) First Prizes (three (3) per Market Area): A $5,000 Backyard Makeover, to be awarded as a check made payable to the winner for $5,000 (ARV: $5,000 each). Forty (40) Second Prizes (five (5) per Market Area): A $2,000 Backyard Makeover, to be awarded as a check made payable to the winner for $2,000 (ARV: $2,000 each). Limit one (1) prize per person/household. Total ARV of prizes: $400,000.

5. Winner Notification: Potential winners in this Sweepstakes will be required to execute and return an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release and where legal, a publicity release, and any other additional documents required by Sponsor within fourteen (14) days of date of issuance. Failure to comply within this time period, or if prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, or in the event of noncompliance with these Official Rules, prize may be forfeited and, at Sponsor’s discretion, awarded to an alternate winner for the drawing at issue.

6. General Prize Restrictions: Prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either expressed or implied by Sponsor. No substitution or transfer of prizes permitted by winners. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion. All federal, state and local taxes, and all costs and expenses related to the acceptance and use of the prizes not specified in these Official Rules are the sole responsibility of the winners. All prize details are at Sponsor’s discretion.

7. General Conditions: Released Parties (as defined below) are not responsible for lost, late, stolen, incomplete, inaccurate, undelivered, delayed or misdirected or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or for any other errors or problems of any kind relating to or in connection with the Sweepstakes, whether computer, technical, network, telephonic, printing, typographical, human or otherwise, including, without limitation, errors or problems which may occur in connection with administration of the Sweepstakes, the processing of entries, the announcement of the prizes or in any Sweepstakes-related materials. By participating, participants agree (a) to release, discharge and hold harmless Bayer Crop Science LP, Marketing Drive PSG, and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, retailers, distributors, advertising and promotion agencies, and any other individuals engaged in any way in the development, production, printing, distribution or execution of this Sweepstakes, and all of the respective directors, officers and employees of the foregoing (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any liability, claims, losses and damages arising out of or relating to their participation in this Sweepstakes and the acceptance, use, misuse or possession of any prize received in this Sweepstakes; (b) to abide by these Official Rules and decisions of Sponsor and Marketing Drive PSG, which shall be final and binding in all respects; and (c) if a winner, to the use of his/her name, city and state of residence and/or likeness for purposes of advertising, promotion and trade in any and all media now or hereafter known throughout the world in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification or permission, except where prohibited by law; and, upon request, to provide consent to such use in writing. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify or terminate this Sweepstakes (or any portion thereof) in the event of any act, occurrence or reason which it believes would corrupt the integrity, administration or fairness of the Sweepstakes (or any portion thereof). In the event the Sweepstakes is cancelled, Sponsor reserves the right to award the prizes for the Marketing Area at issue from among all eligible, non-suspect entries received for such Marketing Area up to time of such action. Any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes, or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by arbitration before the American Arbitration Association in venue selected by Sponsor. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these rules shall not affect the invalidity or unenforceability of any other provision so long as the general intent of these rules remains in effect. In the event that any such provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, these rules shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or unenforceable provision was not contained therein.

8. Winners List Request: For a list of winners (available after 9/15/06), send a hand-printed, self-addressed stamped envelope by 7/31/06 to: TopChoice® Backyard Sweepstakes Winners List Request, P.O. Box 282-W, Wilton, CT 06897-0282.

Sponsor: Bayer Crop Science LP, 2 TW Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.

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