Heavy Hittin' Hybrids
Dec 4, 2006 5:17 PM, Compiled by Kate Royer
- 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.
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