Heavy Hittin' Hybrids

Single traits. Triple stacks. How do you decide? Each year the decision about what seed to plant becomes more and more complicated. That's why The Corn And Soybean Digest asked major seed companies for their best new corn hybrids for next year.

Please use this 2007 New Corn Hybrids guide as a starting point for selecting next year's hybrids. Although you should also consider university, independent and company trial data when you decide, take a look at these seed companies' top picks for the 2007 growing season.

• Outstanding yield potential with fast drydown
• Very good root strength and strong emergence in cool, wet environments
• Best for moderate to well drained soils

• Excellent emergence and plant vigor make it an excellent choice for no-till and continuous corn systems
• Very good plant health and staygreen
• Plant first to take advantage of great emergence

• Consistent ear style with fast drydown and very good root strength
• Outstanding yield potential in primary area of adaptation
• Excellent consistent performance on productive soil types in primary adaptation

• Very good late-season plant intactness and drydown, good stalk and root strength
• Excellent yield and profit potential
• Adapts well to heavy, poorly drained soils

• New high-yielding “12” triple
• Excellent stalk and root strength
• Responds to high populations

• Very high-end hybrid, yield-driven by an unusually girthy ear
• Excellent roots and seedling vigor, with very good test weight and drydown
• Exceptional cool tolerance with average heat tolerance for Northern climates

• Medium plant height and ear placement with truly exceptional stalks and roots
• Unusually fixed ear requiring high plant populations for high yield expression
• Defensive genetics ideal for corn on corn

• Medium-short plant; medium ear placement with a fixed, girthy ear requiring medium to high populations
• Excellent roots, stalks, staygreen, test weight and early plant vigor

• Truly exceptional high-end yield ability
• Strong heat tolerance for movement southward
• Green plant with purple stalks in the fall

• High yield potential with very good stalks and roots, adapts to most soil types
• Very good emergence and fast early growth
• Very good staygreen and disease package
• Good choice for both grain and silage

• Very high yield potential, prefers medium to high populations, responds to high management
• Fast emergence and rapid early growth
• Flowers early for its maturity

• Strong drought and disease resistance
• Versatile soil adaptation
• Excellent drydown, corn-on-corn performance

• Very high-yielding genetics
• Excellent drought scores, stalk and root strength
• Semi-flex ear on a medium-sized plant
• Average staygreen but very good integrity

• Processor Preferred-High Fermentable Corn
• High yield potential, very good test weight
• Excellent roots and very good stalks
• Adapts to all tillage systems, good for grain and silage, prefers medium to high populations

• Wide adaptability, excellent yield potential
• Terrific at high plant populations
• Exceptional drought tolerance
• A medium-height plant with a showy, semi-upright leaf structure

• Very strong yield potential
• Tremendous soil versatility
• High marks for drought, disease resistance
• High yields excel at high plant populations

• Excellent yield potential
• Taller hybrid with excellent staygreen and disease resistance
• A great choice for corn-on-corn ground
• Medium to high ear flex capability

• Excellent emergence and very good early season growth
• Maintains yield level yield across a wide range of growing conditions
• Excellent drought tolerance
• Excellent drydown for reduced drying cost

• Excellent drydown and yield potential for the maturity, excellent drought tolerance
• Very good emergence, excellent seedling growth
• Excellent root quality and very good stalks

• Excellent seedling growth and stalks, very good emergence and roots
• Very good staygreen and harvest appearance
• Outstanding yield potential for the maturity

• Excellent yield potential for the maturity
• Excellent emergence and seedling growth
• Very good roots and stalks

• Outstanding yield for maturity
• Very good emergence and early growth
• Strong stalks and roots, very fast drydown

• Excellent yield for maturity
• Early flowering and black layer
• Excellent stalk and root strength
• Extremely fast drydown

• Tremendous top-end yield potential
• Excellent emergence and early vigor
• Above-average test weight
• Excellent choice for grain, silage production

• Top-end yield potential, very fast drydown
• Above-average defensive traits
• Fast emergence and early growth

• Rugged corn that works corn on corn
• Excellent seedling vigor, stalks and roots
• Performs best when used north of Hwy. 20
• Processor Preferred as Highly Extractable (HES) and Highly Fermentable (HFC) grain

• Excellent seedling growth characteristics
• Flowers early for maturity
• Good choice for early planting

• Excellent choice for corn on corn in maturity
• Dual-purpose corn
• Very good seedling vigor and emergence

• Very fast drydown, excellent seedling vigor
• Long shank corn but holds onto the ear
• Very good roots and stalk quality

• Excellent yield potential and drydown
• Very consistent performance across environments
• Very good drought tolerance

• Shorter-statured style hybrid
• Excellent yield potential and ear retention
• Rapid drydown and good grain quality

• RR/YGPL version of FS 4453
• Shorter-statured with excellent yield potential, ear retention and staygreen
• Very good stalk and root strength

• Outstanding yield potential
• Adapts well to a variety of soil conditions
• Very good health for maturity
• Excellent fall appearance

• Excellent emergence and early vigor
• Broadly adapted to all soil types
• Superb hybrid for grain or silage harvest
• Exceptional choice for no-till acres and highly productive soils

• Optimum performance at moderate populations
• Good choice for continuous corn acres and delayed harvest
• Excellent choice for no-till acres and highly productive soils

• Produces a large ear with deep kernels
• Excellent health and late-season intactness
• Superb choice for highly productive soils
• Good choice for no-till acres, delayed harvest

• Strong emergence for no-till planting with good east to west adaptability
• Good late-season health combined with top-end yield potential
• Superb choice for delayed harvest acres

• Widely adapted across the northern Corn Belt
• Very good seedling vigor allows it to be planted early into cool soils
• Very good root and stalk strength when used as a mid-to-full season hybrid

• Very good emergence and seedling vigor allows for planting early into cool soils
• Solid stalk strength and staygreen provide good late-season standability
• Good test weight and fast drydown

• Very good seedling vigor allows it to be planted early into cool soils
• Very good stalk and root strength provide good late-season standability
• Good test weight and fast drydown

• Very good seedling vigor allows it to be planted early into cool soils
• Medium sized plant with very good stalk and root strength
• Good test weight and fast drydown

• Awesome yield performance with a strong agronomic package, super drydown
• Processor Preferred grain
• Includes Poncho 250 plus Trilex FL

• Super yield performance and standability
• Good disease package
• Medium-short plant, great drought tolerance

• Great stalks and roots, nice test weight
• Great refuge choice for our early G3 lineup

• Two first-places in Michigan State Trials and NCGA Yield Contest Champion
• Great drought tolerance, standability and adaptability, Processor Preferred grain
• Includes Poncho 250 plus Trilex FL

• Very high yield potential
• Outstanding stalk strength
• Very good emergence and vigor

• Great seedling vigor, Very good yield potential
• Outstanding staygreen and fall appearance
• Also available as RR/YGCB

• Excellent yield potential
• Very good stalks and roots, girthy ear style
• Also available as RR/YGCB

• Excellent yield for maturity, very good staygreen
• Adapted from Wisconsin to North Dakota
• Consistent performance across all soil types and cropping sequences

• Very good vigor for early planting
• Strong roots, very good stalks
• Very good drought and heat tolerance in lighter soils, adapted well from east to west

• Outstandingly high yield potential
• Excellent emergence and vigor
• Best in productive soils at higher populations
• An excellent choice for corn on corn

• Very high yield potential for this maturity
• Excellent emergence and early vigor
• Good choice for minimum tillage, early planting
• Exceptional stalks and roots

• High yield potential with rapid drydown
• Healthy plants in season, good color in the fall
• Adapted to medium to higher plant populations

• Medium tall with medium-high ear placement
• Very strong emergence scores, strong stalks
• Very good staygreen and disease ratings
• Excellent corn on corn choice
• Widely adapted across growing environments

• Medium plant height with a medium ear placement, moderate ear flex
• Excellent top-end yield, emergence, early growth
• Somewhat early to flower for maturity

• Excellent yield potential for maturity
• Excellent staygreen, disease tolerance, grain quality, test weight
• Excellent corn on corn choice

• Processor Preferred — High Fermentable Corn
• Tall plant with a medium ear placement, very high yield potential, very good test weight
• Good choice for early planting and reduced tillage, great silage option

• Consistent yields in variable soils, excellent staygreen, good northern corn leaf blight tolerance
• Hard-textured grain delivers above-average test weight
• Flowers late for its maturity, but dries fast after reaching black layer

• High test weight, strong standability and excellent ear retention
• Early flowering and fast grain setup for northern grain production
• Semi-flex ear type helps adjust to variable soil conditions and management practices

• High-yielding with excellent emergence and early vigor, strong choice for no-till and early planting
• Moves north well for its relative maturity, setting up grain quickly

• Exceptional performance in high-yield environments
• Surprising yields come from consistent ears with deep grains and slender cobs
• Moves south into 105- to 110-day growing environments

• Hybrid with top-end yield punch
• Good drought tolerance
• Starts fast and develops strong roots
• Extra Edge Highly Extractable Starch

• Very high yield potential
• Emerges strong and tolerates drought
• Fast drydown

• Big yields, fast drydown for northern growers
• Excellent drought tolerance
• Extra Edge hybrid for dry grind, wet-milling

• High-yielder with rapid drydown
• Good stalks, roots and early emergence
• Broadly adapted within 95-100-day RM area

• Super gray leaf spot tolerance
• Excellent continuous corn, silage hybrid
• Tall with extremely high yield potential

• High-yielding white cob hybrid
• Best west of the Mississippi
• Great late-season stalks and roots

• Outstanding yield punch
• Plant thick for highest yields
• Widely adapted to most soils
• Excellent stalks, great fall appearance

• Excellent hybrid for continuous corn
• Delivers exceptional yields with fast drydown
• Widely adapted to variable soil types
• Tall hybrid makes great silage

• New base genetics tough enough for corn-on-corn production
• Impressive yield potential for the most productive acres

• Exceptional yield potential, reliable drydown
• Good standability makes this hybrid an early favorite

• Outstanding yield potential
• Rapid drydown in the fall
• Excellent drought tolerance

• Solid agronomic performance in maturity zone
• Strong defensive package for corn-on-corn production

• Semi-flex ear, excellent yield potential
• Very good roots and very good stalks

• Flex ear, good stalks, excellent roots
• Really excels in high-yield environments

• Can handle drought conditions and performs well in the best yield environments
• Medium-tall corn with good seedling vigor
• Very good roots and excellent stalks

• Semi-flex ear
• Medium stature with upright leaves
• Good roots and above-average stalks

• Fast dry-down and outstanding yield potential
• Very good stalk and root strength with nice late-season intactness
• Semi-determinate ear on medium-tall plants, performance best at higher plant populations

• Strong roots and very good stalk strength.
• Semi-flex ear, best at medium-high populations.
• Also available as V3540, V35Y41 and V35R66.

• Dependable yielder, even in dry conditions
• Exceptional root and stalk strength
• Eye-catching plant integrity at harvest
• Very high test weight, glossy grain

• Exceptional yield-to-moisture ratio
• Outstanding drought tolerance
• Very good against gray leaf spot

• Outstanding yield potential
• Dependable root strength
• Consistent performance in rotation or following corn, impressive drought tolerance

• Solid yields and rapid drydown
• Amazing ability to silk in drought conditions
• Excellent stalk strength
• Great fall appearance and plant integrity
  

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A6394BtRW — 107-Day RM

• Delivers top-end yield on productive soils
• Strong emergence and root package, can be used in a variety of cropping systems

• Outstanding yield potential in area of adaptation
• Outstanding emergence, early season vigor
• Exceptional late-season plant health, intactness
• Excellent choice for continuous corn systems

• Excellent choice for no-till or reduced tillage systems, can be placed on marginal soil types while still delivering top-end yield
• Strong emergence, early vigor, stalk and root package make it a must plant in the eastern Corn Belt

• Excellent yield potential over a wide range of growing conditions
• Very good stalks and excellent roots
• Excellent staygreen, very good disease package

• Optimum performance at moderate plant populations
• Outstanding yield potential in high-yield environments, very good drydown for early harvest
• Excellent ear flex for lower planting populations

• Excellent roots and very good stalks
• Consistent yield performance, good overall plant health and harvest appearance
• Very good drought tolerance

• High-yielding addition to “44” family
• Fast drydown, excellent in northern geographies

• Healthy, high-yielding “16” hybrid
• Perfect triple for CRW variant area
• Tremendous agronomic package

• New yield leader, dominates in good soils
• Girthy ear

• Tremendous technology option
• Handles high population
• Excellent stress tolerance Burrus

• Big, big top-end yield potential
• Prefers your best soils, plant it thick
• Expect great plant health with strong stalks

• Triple stack protection
• Terrific yield with super fast drydown
• Plant at medium populations
• Good late-season plant intactness

• Offers beautiful plants, terrific top-end yield
• Keep it on your best soils, plant thick
• Excellent stalks and roots

• Outstanding root strength
• Good standability across soils and geography
• Plant it thick for maximum performance

• New female with exceptional roots and drought tolerance combined with an outstanding male.
• Strong northward movement
• Shorter plant types requiring higher populations, good roots and stalks

• Utilizes its large-ear to produce high yields
• Exceptional roots, drought tolerance and high-end yield ability
• Improved stalks and plant health vs. other hybrids of this genetic type

• Late Health/High Yield female combined with a high-yielding Southern male.
• Improved staygreen, stalks, roots, grain quality
• Large flex ear with wide adaptation to soil types and populations

• New ultra-healthy female combined with a large-eared, high-yielding Southern male
• Improved disease tolerance, stalks, roots and grain quality
• Flex-ear type, wide adaptation to populations

• High end yield potential across all soil types
• Good test weight and grain quality
• Excellent corn on corn
• Very good stress and disease tolerance, including gray leaf spot
• Will flex its ear at various populations

• Processor Preferred-High Extractable Starch
• Adapted to western Corn Belt, most soil types
• Best after beans in central region
• Excellent stalks, roots and drought tolerance
• Excellent emergence and seedling vigor, medium plant and ear height

• Processor Preferred-High Extractable Starch
• High yield potential, very good test weight
• Performs east to west across the Corn Belt
• Very good Goss's Wilt tolerance for the west

• Adapts to central and eastern Corn Belt, all soil types and tillage systems
• High yield potential with a very good disease package, good corn on corn choice
• Fixed ear requires higher populations
• Very good stress tolerance

• High-yielding with strong stalks and roots and exceptional drydown
• Outstanding drought resistance
• Excels in the central and western Corn Belt
• Tremendously diverse soil adaptation capability

• High yield potential, outstanding drought and disease resistance, strong corn on corn choice
• Large, girthy ears of high test weight grain
• Tremendous soil versatility

• Tall, showy hybrid with exceptional disease resistance, excellent for corn on corn
• Superb staygreen, excellent stalk and root strength
• Excellent grain quality due to high test weight

• Very high yield potential
• Excellent response to high management
• Outstanding disease and drought resistance
• Medium-tall plant with high test weight

• Outstanding yield potential
• Very good stalk and root strength
• Good overall disease package

• Outstanding yield potential
• Very good stalk and root strength
• Very good test weight and grain appearance
• Good overall disease package

• Excellent yield potential for the maturity
• Very good overall disease package including gray leaf spot tolerance
• Very good emergence and excellent seedling growth allow for early planting
• Excellent stalk strength and very good roots

• Very good emergence and seedling growth
• Very good root strength
• Good overall disease package
• Very good Goss's wilt tolerance for the western Corn Belt

• Very high grain or forage yield
• Very good test weight and grain quality
• Superior fiber digestibility
• Excellent emergence and early vigor

• Medium-statured hybrid with girthy ears
• Top-end yield potential, very fast drydown
• Very good emergence and seedling vigor

• Tall-statured hybrid with excellent top-end yield potential, emergence and seedling vigor
• Good stalks and roots
• Deep kernels on a long, semi-flex ear

• Outstanding yield performance
• Excellent late-season plant intactness
• Consistent, girthy ears
• Excellent stalk strength

• Excellent top-end yield potential
• Very good disease package, including grey leaf spot tolerance
• Good grain quality and test weight

• Solid agronomic package
• Very good stalks and roots
• Excellent late-season standability
• Short stature plant type with medium-low ear placement

• New YieldGard VT technology
• Very good Goss's wilt tolerance for the western Corn Belt
• Very good test weight and works well across various soil type, good choice for corn on corn
• Dual-purpose corn and Processor Preferred as Highly Extractable (HES) grain

• Excellent top-end yield potential
• Semi flex ear on a medium plant
• Very good stalks and roots
• Very showy corn up to pollination

• Attractive hybrid with excellent fall integrity
• Outstanding yield potential and consistency
• Excellent drydown
• Adaptability to a variety of soil conditions

• Attractive hybrid, outstanding yield potential
• Excellent drydown and fall integrity
• Consistent performance across a wide variety of soil conditions

• Consistently high-yielding hybrid with large, girthy ears, excellent staygreen
• Very good stalk and root strength
• Excellent staygreen

• Excellent eye appeal, very good health
• Responds well to high management
• Solid agronomic package in a racehorse-style hybrid

• Excellent emergence with solid agronomics
• Good late-season plant health allows movement south of zone
• Top-end yield potential in its market

• Broadly adapted yield leader, soil type flexibility
• Dependable stalk and root strength
• Excellent choice for no-till acres

• Strong early growth for tillage management adaptability
• Exciting top-end yields for high performance acres
• Medium-tall hybrid with moderate ear flex
• Excellent choice for highly productive soils

• Yield punch with consistency and strong emergence
• Best performance in central and western Corn Belt
• Excellent choice for highly productive soils

• Very good seedling vigor for fast emergence
• Very good late-season staygreen
• Girthy ear with fast drydown

• Excellent drought tolerance highlights a strong agronomic package
• Widely adapted hybrid in various yield environments and geographic regions
• Very good seedling vigor for fast emergence

• High-yielding, widely adapted hybrid
• Solid root and stalk strength provide for good late-season standability
• Very good seedling vigor for early planting

• Strong emergence allows for early planting
• Good root strength and late-season staygreen
• Grain dries rapidly in the field

• New version of super performing 5711Bt — now with YieldGard Rootworm protection, too
• Many FIRST, university and NCGA yield contest wins in 2005
• Includes Poncho 250 plus Trilex FL

• Another new stacked version of 5711Bt
• Deep kernels, super root strength and very good drought tolerance with outstanding yield levels

• Excellent standability, nice test weight, good disease package and excellent plant health
• Consistent top-end yield, works in any environment, Processor Preferred grain
• Includes Poncho 250 plus Trilex FL

• Superior yield for maturity
• Excellent emergence, outstanding test weight
• Great for those tougher, coarse soils
• 16-18 rows of deep kernels

• High yield potential
• Excellent root strength, good plant health
• Also available as RR, RR/YGCB, and YGCB

• Very good root strength, consistent ear size
• Fast drydown
• Adapted from Illinois to the eastern 1/3 of Nebraska

• Outstanding yield for maturity
• Good plant health, fast drydown
• Consistent performance across all soil types and cropping sequences

• High yield potential, good GLS tolerance
• Very good root and stalk strength
• Adapted from Illinois to Nebraska

• Excellent yield potential
• Very good emergence and early plant vigor
• Large flex ears with deep kernels on small cob
• Strong stalk rot tolerance for dependable harvest

• Superior plant health and great staygreen
• Excellent performance in poorly drained soils
• Excellent for minimum tillage systems
• Good performance in corn following corn

• High grain quality, top yields, exceptional stalk quality, excellent stress tolerance
• A superior hybrid for planting corn after corn
• Holds up well against gray leaf spot

• Medium plant and ear height
• Excellent top-end yield potential
• Very strong disease package
• Nice grain quality and test weight

• Medium plant and ear height
• Strong central and eastern preference
• Excellent standability
• Outstanding top-end yield
• Fast emergence and early growth

• Processor Preferred — High Extractable Starch
• Medium-tall plant, medium ear placement
• Fast early growth, high yield potential
• Very good Goss's wilt tolerance

• Medium plant and ear height, fixed ear type
• Excellent yielding genetics
• Widely adapted to a variety of soil types
• Good anthracnose tolerance

• Excellent emergence, stalk strength, staygreen and gray leaf spot
• Great performance stability across soil types and management practices
• Best adapted to the central and eastern growing areas

• Medium height with very high yield potential and good Goss's wilt tolerance
• Produces very consistent, moderately girthy ears with white cobs, very good grain quality
• Performs best at moderate plant populations that allow ears to flex

• A standout at late field days due to exceptional plant health and staygreen
• Features excellent early vigor, stalk strength and ear retention
• Strong choice for no-till and early planting

• Excellent yield stability across a wide range of environments and management practices
• Particularly well adapted east of the Mississippi River where the western corn rootworm “soybean variant” is present
• Best performance at medium-high to high plant densities

• Drought and stress tolerant performer
• Extra Edge Highly Extractable Starch hybrid
• Outstanding stalk and root strength for exceptional standability

• Good plant health with NCLB protection
• Strong emergence and early growth
• Recommended for corn-on-corn acres
• Extra Edge DGE/HES hybrid

• Top choice for standablility
• Excellent plant health, stalks and roots
• Extra Edge Highly Extractable Starch hybrid

• High yield potential hybrid
• Strong agronomics and GLS protection
• Very good emergence, strong roots, fast drydown

• Super gray leaf spot tolerance
• Excellent continuous corn hybrid
• Brown shucks on a green plant, very girthy ears

• Plant thick on dark prairie soils
• Extremely high yield potential
• Excellent disease resistance
• Excellent continuous corn hybrid

• Great in southern Corn Belt as early hybrid
• Huge flex ear, really good stalks and roots
• Plant at medium populations

• New white cob hybrid
• Huge ear flex, great stalks and roots
• Outstanding drought tolerance

• The foundation hybrid in its maturity zone
• Tolerates a wide range of soil types, best suited for heavier soils

• Excellent drought tolerance and later silking down allow movement south of maturity zone
• Moderate disease resistance suggests best performance on rotated soils

• New hybrid family with above-average standability
• Superb yield potential for the most productive yield environments

• Superior yield potential even under hot, dry growing conditions

• Flex ear, excellent roots and stalks
• Will perform well at lower populations but has the genetic package to yield at high populations

• Flex ear, excellent roots and stalks
• Works well on irrigated or dryland acres

• Flex ear, excellent roots and stalks
• Works well on irrigated or dryland acres

• Excellent choice for no-till and all crop rotations, achieves best performance at medium-high populations on mixed to better soil types
• Strong stalk and root strength, very good staygreen and late-season intactness

• Widely adapted east-to-west with very good southern adaptation for grain or silage
• Flex style ear that allows use across varying plant populations on most soil types
• Very good disease ratings for gray leaf spot, NCLB and SCLB

• Excellent emergence and seedling vigor to perform in any tillage system
• Very good stalk and root strength, staygreen
• Best adapted central and west and has very good southern movement for its maturity

• Well adapted east to west in higher yield environments
• Ears have a girthy fixed length with very good grain quality and test weight
• Emergence and seedling vigor are strong and will allow use in reduced tillage systems

• Reliable, high yield performance in wet or dry years; amazing, top-rated root strength
• Very good natural European corn borer tolerance
• Excellent drydown

• Exceptional yields, solid agronomics
• Amazing drought tolerance
• Impressive roots and stalks
• Widely adaptable across management systems

• High, stable yield performance across environments
• Exceptional late-season plant integrity, appearance, excellent drydown
• A great choice for continuous corn

• Exciting, consistent yield capability across soil types
• Ear flex compensates at lower populations
• Strong performance in drought conditions
• Exceptional northern leaf blight tolerance
  

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• Outstanding yields throughout central Corn Belt
• Great ear flex at moderate plant populations
• Plant at moderate to high populations to maximize profit potential
• Very good choice for no-till and continuous corn systems

• Strong agronomic package and top-end yield potential
• Can be used in most cropping systems and adapts to various soils and environments
• Outstanding late-season plant health and intactness make it an excellent choice for no-till or reduced tillage systems

• Outstanding late-season plant health and intactness, adapted to all soil types and production practices
• Excellent for no-till or reduced tillage systems
• Outstanding yield potential with a strong agronomic package

• Good drydown for its maturity, good late-season plant intactness
• Strong emergence and vigor package with an outstanding health package

• Very good emergence and seedling growth
• Excellent yield performance over a wide range of conditions
• Excellent staygreen and very good harvest appearance, stalk and root strength

• Incredible yield punch, robust hybrid
• Tremendous “16” for better soils

• Combination of “16” and “97” families
• Tremendous plant health
• Excellent yield punch

• Outstanding harvest appearance
• Excellent standability and health
• Steady performer

• Exciting triple stack hybrid
• Tremendously high yields across all geographies
• Excellent agronomics and maintains its health through harvest season

• Top-end yields across all soil types
• Excellent grain characteristics
• A+ agronomic package

• A full season hybrid that works well north
• Very good health package with beautiful fall appearance, superb yield potential
• Push populations to maximize performance

• Outstanding heat and drought tolerance with excellent stalks, roots, late-season plant health
• Exceptional disease tolerance, including GLS, NCLB, SCLB
• Fixed-ear type requires higher plant populations

• Southern/Tropical genetic type with exceptional disease package, late-season intactness
• Heat and drought tolerant, with strong adaptation to the eastern Corn Belt
• Exceptional plant health, slows drydown
• Semi-flex ear, requiring higher populations

• Best if planted in the eastern Corn Belt and the Midsouth
• New Tropical/Northern male with exceptional plant health and staygreen
• Flowers early; exceptional plant health slows drydown
• Semi-flex ear requiring higher populations

• Excellent roots, outstanding drought tolerance
• Very strong heat tolerance for the Deep South
• Large flex ear for a wide range of populations
• Tall plant height drives exceptional silage tonnage

• Very high yield potential
• Very good disease tolerance scores
• Prefers better soils at higher populations
• Good staygreen and intactness into the fall
• Very good stalks and roots

• Very good yield potential and roots with excellent test weight
• Very good gray leaf spot tolerance
• Good choice for corn on corn, especially good in the irrigated west.
• Prefers medium to medium-high populations

• Medium plant and ear height
• Excellent yield potential, plant health, disease package, stress tolerance
• Widely adapted to many growing environments

• Processor Preferred-High Extractable Starch
• Extremely high yield potential, very responsive to management inputs
• Very consistent girthy ear with excellent flex
• Tall, robust plant for both grain and silage
• Maintains very good staygreen in the fall

• Extraordinary yield potential with girthy ears of grain, very good for almost every soil type
• Solid performance in a corn on corn

• Outstanding yield potential
• Excellent emergence and very good seedling growth allow for early planting
• Very good roots and stalks
• Very good disease package including gray leaf spot tolerance

• Very good stalks and roots allow for flexible harvest scheduling
• Excellent drought tolerance, very good test weight
• Excellent staygreen and harvest appearance

• Excellent top-end yield potential for the irrigated producer, very good test weight
• Very good emergence and seedling growth

• Very good emergence and seedling growth
• Consistent performance across soil types and tillage practices
• Solid overall disease package and very good staygreen and stalk strength

• Outstanding performance in 2005 FCD trials
• Very good stress tolerance
• Very good standability
• Very fast drydown

• Tall, robust plant, excellent ear flex
• Excellent staygreen and late-season intactness
• Population flexibility

• Impressive yield performance
• Excellent stress tolerance
• Very good staygreen and fall plant intactness
• Very good standability

• Top yielder in Fontanelle's Dominator Series
• Keep east of I-35
• Excellent emergence
• Keeps its plant integrity well into the fall

• Very good emergence, good fall drydown
• Best performance on highly productive soils
• Processor Preferred as Highly Extractable (HES) grain

• Best of the best for yield
• Good choice for corn on corn
• Excellent late-season plant intactness
• Very good disease package

• Excellent seedling vigor
• Very nice grain quality with a smooth cap
• Versatile corn, Processor Preferred as Highly Extractable grain

• Improved version of FS 6684 Bt
• Top-end yield potential
• Very good agronomic package

• Outstanding yield potential, responds best to high management soils and high population
• Excellent staygreen and high yields
• Excellent ear flex will allow for lower populations on less productive soils
• Tall, robust, dual-purpose hybrid

• Superior plant health
• Exceptional late-season integrity
• Excellent top-end yield potential, grain quality and test weight

• RR/YGPL version of the food-grade accepted hybrid FS 6556
• Excellent test weight, grain quality and disease resistance
• Outstanding yield potential and consistency

• Tall, robust, dual-purpose hybrid with a full canopy and solid agronomics
• Responds well in high management settings with stability for lower managed settings
• Excellent choice for continuous corn acres, highly productive soils and delayed harvest

• Tall, robust hybrid producing full canopy with outstanding top-end yield potential
• Strong leaf disease packaged for central and eastern Corn Belt
• Flexible ear for population adaptability
• Excellent choice for highly productive soils

• Racehorse yield potential
• Excels in high management, irrigated acres of the West and Southwest
• Tall, robust hybrid producing a full canopy with a strong leaf disease package
• Excellent choice for highly productive soils

• Excellent top-end yield potential
• Broadly adapted from east to west with good southern movement
• Full canopy, robust plant style supported by excellent late-season health and agronomics
• Dual-purpose hybrid with field management flexibility

• Strong emergence and vigor for early planting
• Very good stalk strength aids in harvest efficiency
• Gray leaf spot tolerance improves late-season performance

• Outstanding top-end yield potential
• Strong seedling vigor for early planting
• Very good late-season staygreen

• Medium-tall, high-yielding hybrid
• Good stalk strength and staygreen for late-season standability
• Widely adapted over various soil types

• Shining star of 2005 NET Testing program
• Blockbuster yield with excellent emergence, good drought tolerance and nice ear flex

• Super consistency, great standability and moderate ear flex, great choice for silage
• High extractable starch, above-average test weight; includes Poncho 250 plus Trilex FL

• Outstanding ear girth
• High yield with good test weight
• Will yield under stressful conditions

• Excellent early vigor and stress tolerance
• Attractive plant type with uniform ear placement
• Excellent grain quality and high fermentable starch, very good yield performance

• High yield potential
• Good tolerance to gray leaf spot
• Adapted form Illinois to Nebraska

• Very stress tolerant, excellent yield potential
• Especially well adapted from western Iowa to Nebraska; also available as HX and RR/HX

• Excellent yield potential
• Improved root strength compared to related hybrids, very good drought tolerance

• Healthy plant for southern movement
• Excellent yield potential
• Adapted from Illinois to Nebraska

• Ear flex adapts well to moderate populations
• Strong roots for ridge-till, fits all tillage systems
• Strong stalks for standability

• Top-end yield potential, impressive season long health; performs best in fertile soils
• Superior stalks and roots, excellent staygreen; fast emergence favors no-till planting

• Best two-year yield record of any hybrid in this maturity
• Excellent plant health and fast drydown
• Performs well in dryland and under irrigation
• Excellent use as silage hybrid

• Very high yield potential
• Excellent hybrid for corn following corn
• Superior stalks and roots
• Well adapted from east to west

• Medium plant and ear height
• Excellent yield potential, plant health, disease package, stress tolerance
• Widely adapted to a variety of growing environments

• Excellent top-end yield
• Large flexible ear, fast drydown
• Excellent stress tolerance

• Medium plant and ear height
• Strong top-end yield
• Excellent choice for irrigated west
• Excellent roots, good ear flex
• Strong GLS tolerance

• Excellent standability, staygreen, ear retention and late-season plant intactness
• Great yield stability and very good drought-stress tolerance
• Strong choice for corn-on-corn acres

• Improved test weight, better husk coverage and lower ear height
• Yield stability over years and environments will be a major strength of this hybrid
• Performs best in areas where it is medium-full to full-season

• Outstanding yields from quality grain produced on long, girthy ears with white cobs
• Performs well at low to medium-high plant densities, moderate tolerance to gray leaf spot
• Widely adapted from Delmarva to western Kansas

• Medium-tall plants feature excellent emergence, drought tolerance and ear retention
• Excellent standability and staygreen allow for delayed harvesting
• Stable yield and agronomic performance across a wide range of environments

• Excellent stress tolerance for top yields
• Drought tolerance, ear flex for adaptability
• Extra Edge Highly Extractable Starch hybrid

• Excellent drought tolerance
• Top choice for dual-purpose acres
• High quality silage well suited for dairy rations

• Developed for southern environments
• Excellent plant health and standability
• Superior grain quality and test weight

• Super gray leaf spot tolerance
• Excellent continuous corn hybrid
• Widely adapted to dark and light soils
• Huge ear flex and yield potential

• Huge flex-ear hybrid for the West
• Outstanding drought tolerance
• Big yields at low populations

• Proven genetic package adapted to a range of soil types
• Strongest performance under heat and on well-drained soils

• Ideal plant type
• Good standability for late harvest
• Exceptional drought tolerance

• Great balance of agronomics and impressive yield potential
• Dependable stalks, moderate plant height
• Excellent drought tolerance

• Outstanding yield potential
• Strong drought tolerance

• Flex ear, excellent roots and very good stalks
• Excellent for lighter soils and other stress areas

• Large flex ear
• A white cob hybrid, has late-season intactness
• Excellent roots and good stalk strength

• Semi-flex ear
• Best at moderate to high populations
• Well adapted to the western Corn Belt

• Very good stalk strength and staygreen for nice late-season integrity
• Very good stress tolerance, excellent full-season choice in northern area of adaptation
• Semi-determinate ears that have 18-22 kernel rows of girth

• Flex style ear, widely adapted for grain or silage
• Very good stalk and root strength with good stress tolerance
• Strong emergence and seedling vigor, making it ideal for reduced-till acres

• Excellent choice for grain or high quality silage
• Solid disease package with strong stalk and root strength
• Semi-flex ears with good girth and very good stress tolerance allow use across a wide range of environments
• Well-adapted east to west with very good southern movement into the Midsouth

• Remarkably stable, stellar yields across environments
• Excellent drought tolerance
• Amazing root strength, eye-catching staygreen

• Exceptionally stable, high yields
• Solid performance across management systems
• Good health package, excellent gray leaf spot tolerance
• Excellent staygreen, good late-season stalks

• Impressive health and yield potential
• Amazing drought tolerance
• Attractive, high test weight grain
• Great continuous corn choice

• Reliable high yields, even in drought conditions
• Attractive plant, remarkable staygreen
• Amazing root strength
• Excellent gray leaf spot tolerance
  

Hybrids are listed alphabetically by company, grouped into three relative maturity (RM) zones:

Early season (75-104 days)
Mid-season (105-112 days)
Late-season (113-120 days)

Most herbicide and insect treatments are abbreviated. They include:

Agrisure Corn Borer (CB)
Agrisure Glyphosate Tolerant (GT)
Clearfield (CL)
Herculex 1 (HX1)
Herculex XTRA (HXX)
Liberty Link (LL)
Roundup Ready (RR)
Roundup Ready 2 (RR2)
YieldGard Corn Borer (YGCB)
YieldGard Rootworm (YGRW)
YieldGard Plus (YGPL)

Editor's note: This list isn't intended to be comprehensive. Companies included in the 2007 New Corn Hybrids Guide were identified through The Corn And Soybean Digest's 2006 Reader Profile. The top companies named by growers are listed.