Heavy-Hitting Hybrids

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

STINE

9200RRYGCB — 85-87-day RM (RR2, YGCB)

  • Semi-determinant ear with 16-20 rows
  • Very good stalks, roots
  • Consistent performance across environments
  • Good stress tolerance

9523VT3 — 103-105-day RM (YGVT3/RR2)

  • Excellent yield potential
  • Consistent ear size with excellent girth
  • Responds well to foliar fungicides
  • Good companion hybrid to 9418VT3, 9525VT3

WENSMAN

W 7107VT3 — 90-day RM (VT3)

  • Dominating, consistent yield potential
  • Excellent standability
  • Wide harvest timing window; can harvest last
  • Easy combining hybrid

W 7143VT3 — 93-day RM (VT3)

  • Superior emergence, early season vigor
  • Great late-season intactness
  • Maximize performance by planting medium-high to high populations
  • Position on average to better soils

W 7089VT3 — 86-day RM (VT3)

  • Very early flowering, black layer
  • Emergence, early vigor
  • Position on all soil types including drought-prone soils
  • Use as full-season hybrid

WYFFELS HYBRIDS INC.

W2329 — 100-day RM (3000GT/LL)

  • Consistent, high yields across soil types
  • Amazing root strength and sturdy stalks
  • Excellent drydown and solid agronomics
  • Highly adaptable for environments in northern Iowa

W2681 — 101-day RM (YGVT3)

  • New genetics with exceptional yield for maturity
  • Fast-drying with tremendous yield-to-moisture ratios
  • Stable across soil types, including lighter soils
  • Maintains yield potential on corn-corn

W3629 — 104-day RM (3000GT/LL)

  • Outstanding new yield leader in maturity
  • Solid agronomics; highly recommended for corn-corn
  • Very good stalk strength, unsurpassed roots
  • Strong late-season health, standability, staygreen for long harvest window

MID-SEASON

AGRIGOLD

A6489 — 112-day RM (VT3, RR)

  • Outstanding yield potential; strong agronomic package
  • Consistent performance in all cropping systems
  • High test weight, above-average grain quality

A6439 — 109-day RM (VT3)

  • Outstanding yield potential under high management systems
  • Excellent emergence, early vigor
  • Excellent drydown allows for early harvest

A6437 — 109-day RM (Conventional)

  • Excellent yield potential at optimum populations
  • Consistent performance across variable environments
  • Excellent test weight, food-grain quality

CROPLAN

5892VT3 — 107-day RM (VT3)

  • Combines 5338, 591, 5891 female with new, high-yielding southern/UR male
  • Semi-flex ear with 16-20 rows; requires populations on high side
  • Excellent early plant vigor, roots, stalks; ideal for no-till, corn-corn application; above-average staygreen; high response to Headline application
  • Better test weight than 5891; unusually fast grain drydown, much faster early season drydown than 591

6125VT3 — 109-day RM (VT3)

  • Combines exceptional roots, drought tolerance of new female with north/west 6025, 6525 male
  • Provides better disease tolerance while keeping the high yield potential; some test weight lost
  • Top-end yield potential; heat tolerance, strong silking with exceptional loose husks for fast drydown

6425VT3 — 112-day RM (VT3)

  • Female 6886 combined with male 6125, 6525, 6725
  • Outstanding ability to silk, pollinate under heat, moisture stress
  • Exceptional top-end yield potential with wide area of adaptation from east to west
  • Medium-tall plant with medium-low ear placement, semi-flex ear type; best performance at 30,000+ populations

CROW'S

4727VT3 — 109-day RM (YGVT3/RR2)

  • Build more bins
  • Increase population on better ground for highest yield potential
  • Highly adaptable to various soil types with great health, standability
  • First-class roots promote good standability

4799VT3 — 109-day RM (YGVT3/RR2)

  • Yield punch knockout
  • High yield potential for high-management, better-soils acres
  • Good standability, test weight
  • Rotate after soybeans in central, eastern areas

4826VT3 — 110-day RM (YGVT3/RR2)

  • Top-end yield potential with outstanding disease package
  • Will move south in Corn Belt
  • Adapts to all crop rotations, tillage systems
  • Can be planted from medium to high populations

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