Hotshot Hybrids

Nov 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Jen Bennett

BECK'S

7916VT3 — 116-day (YGVT3/RR)

  • Tremendous plant health
  • Perfect product for South
  • Excellent yield punch

6733 — 113-day RM

  • Tremendous yield punch
  • Excellent late-season plant health
  • Food-grade potential

6722VT3 — 114-day RM (YGVT3, RR)

  • Sets new yield levels
  • Excellent flex-ear potential
  • Loves highly productive soils

BURRUS

669R — 113-day RM (RR2)

  • Tremendous choice for refuge acres
  • Works anywhere, especially on variable soils
  • Excellent late-season plant health with sound roots, stalks
  • Push the populations to maximize performance

750 — 115-day RM (Conventional)

  • Grain buyers' dream
  • Big plant style with yields to match
  • Prefers higher populations
  • Good tolerance to gray leaf spot, northern leaf blight

798BW — 115-day RM (YGCB)

  • First waxy with YieldGard corn borer protection
  • Works on virtually any soil type including sand
  • Plant early to capture full profit potential
  • Don't crowd plant density

CROPLAN

6818VT3 — 114-day RM (YGVT3)

  • Three-day-earlier version
  • Best defensive hybrid for continuous corn at maturity
  • Fixed-ear type requiring higher populations, even on sandy soils
  • Strong root system with exceptional ability to silk, fill ear under stress for outstanding heat, drought tolerance

7505VT3 — 116-day RM (YGVT3)

  • Combines the high-yield female with ultra-healthy northern/tropical male
  • Flowers earlier than 751; outstanding health, staygreen; slower drydown
  • Exceptional high-end yield ability, especially with heat, plenty of water

6831HXT — 112-day RM (HXX)

  • Combines large-eared southern male with very healthy female
  • Nitrogen driven, not population driven; large-flex ear produces high-end yields at low-medium plant density
  • Female improves silking under heat, moisture stress

CROWS

4985VT3 — 112-day RM (YGVT3)

  • High top-end yield potential
  • Excellent stalks, roots
  • Excellent GLS tolerance, continuous corn choice
  • Adapts well to all soil types, tillage systems

5304VT3 — 114-day RM (YGVT3)

  • Processor Preferred high fermentable corn
  • Medium plant, ear height
  • Excellent yield potential, plant health, stress tolerance, disease package
  • Widely adapted to variety of growing environments

5134VT3 — 113-day RM (YGVT3)

  • Good yield potential; excellent test weight
  • Good gray leaf spot tolerance; tremendous roots
  • Good choice for continuous corn
  • Prefers medium to medium-high populations; especially good in irrigated west

DAIRYLAND

Stealth-6615 — 113-day RM (RR)

  • Tall plant; great stalk, root strength
  • Strong performance in no-till, continuous corn
  • Excellent southern maturity movement
  • Excellent drought tolerance

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