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