Heavy-Hitting Hybrids

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Compiled by Jen Bennett

MIDWEST

70007VT3 — 99-day RM (YGVT3/RR2)

  • Excellent top-end yield potential with strong stalks
  • Strong Goss' Wilt tolerance
  • Excellent emergence, early growth
  • Fast drydown for earlier harvest window

69033VT3 — 86-day RM (YGVT3/RR2)

  • Outstanding yield potential for maturity
  • Excellent staygreen, disease tolerance
  • Top notch grain quality, test weight
  • Excellent corn-corn choice

68101R — 85-day RM (RR2)

  • Excellent yield for maturity
  • Strong stalks, roots
  • Excellent drought score
  • Tall stature

MYCOGEN

2J337 — 92-day RM (YGVT3)

  • Performs in wide variety of environments, production systems
  • Combines top-end yield potential with yield stability
  • Equipped with a strong stalk, root system
  • Strong agronomic package, including fall health, stress tolerance

2A499 — 99-day RM (HXX, RR)

  • Hard-textured grain; above-average test weight
  • Excellent staygreen, northern corn leaf blight tolerance
  • Excellent yield response to higher plant densities
  • Flowers late for maturity; dries fast after black layer

2D519 — 101-day RM (YGVT3)

  • Top choice for early planting, no-till
  • Medium plant, ear height; produces grain with good test weight
  • Good tolerance to eyespot, anthracnose leaf blight
  • Competitive performance in 100-day growing environments from New England through Colorado

NC+

1982VT3 — 99-day RM (YGVT3/RR2)

  • Top yield potential for high-yielding environments
  • Tremendous staygreen for late-season plant health
  • Use in areas where Goss' Wilt tolerance needed
  • Reliable emergence for early corn planted early

1012VT3 — 88-day RM (YGVT3/RR2)

  • Excellent choice for early planting in no-till situations; high yield potential
  • Good seedling vigor across variety of growing conditions
  • Excellent stalk strength for standability
  • Produces grain with high test weight, excellent quality

0581R — 85-day RM (RR2)

  • True 85-day product; adapted to most crop rotations
  • Strong emergence with good early vigor makes for excellent no-till, early planting choice
  • Strong roots, stalks provide exceptional standability
  • Dual-purpose — produces high-test weight grain or high-quality silage

NK

N40T-3000GT — 99-day RM (GT/CB/LL/RW)

  • Exceptional yield punch
  • Backed by solid agronomics including very good seedling growth, fast drydown
  • Strong stress, drought tolerance support yield stability
  • Characterized for high extractable starch

N51T-3000GT — 104-day RM (GT/CB/LL/RW)

  • Packs top-end punch for grain, silage yields
  • Strong drought tolerance supports consistent performance over wide range of conditions
  • Early plant choice; exceptional root strength protects against root lodging
  • Characterized for dry grind ethanol, high extractable starch

N16M-3000GT — 82-day RM (GT/CB/LL/RW)

  • Superior agronomics support high yields
  • Exceptional stalk strength, late-season intactness for great standability, flexible harvest
  • Heavy test weight dries down fast
  • Characterized for high extractable starch

PIONEER

38H08 — 92-day RM (HX1/LL/RR2)

  • Exceptional yield potential, grain drydown under wide variety of yield environments

38P43 — 95-day RM (HXX/LL/RR2)

  • Excellent yield potential
  • Above-average root lodging resistance
  • Early harvest option

37N16 — 99-day RM (HXX/LL/RR2)

  • Good stability across wide range of environments
  • Top yield performance at high yield levels

PRODUCERS

6374VT3 — 103-day RM (YGVT3)

  • Strong drought tolerance
  • Very healthy
  • Very good seedling vigor
  • Average roots

5314VT3 — 93-day RM (YGVT3)

  • Medium-tall hybrid
  • Strong roots, good stalks
  • Prefers high population
  • Fast drydown

5004VT3 — 90-day RM (YGVT3)

  • Medium-tall hybrid
  • Very good roots, stalks
  • Strong yield potential
  • Versatile across many soil types, conditions

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