Heavy Hittin' Hybrids

Dec 4, 2006 5:17 PM, Compiled by Kate Royer

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AGRIGOLD
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
A6455BtRWRR — 110-Day RM


  • Outstanding yield potential in area of adaptation
  • Outstanding emergence, early season vigor
  • Exceptional late-season plant health, intactness
  • Excellent choice for continuous corn systems
A6377 — 105-Day RM


  • 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
ASGROW
RX754RR2/YGPL — 112-Day RM


  • Excellent yield potential over a wide range of growing conditions
  • Very good stalks and excellent roots
  • Excellent staygreen, very good disease package
RX674RR2/YGPL — 109-Day RM


  • 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
A6474BtRWRR — 111-Day RM


  • Excellent roots and very good stalks
  • Consistent yield performance, good overall plant health and harvest appearance
  • Very good drought tolerance
BECK'S
5244CBRWRR — 106-Day RM (YGPL/RR)


  • High-yielding addition to “44” family
  • Fast drydown, excellent in northern geographies
5416CBRWRR — 110-Day RM (YGPL, RR)


  • Healthy, high-yielding “16” hybrid
  • Perfect triple for CRW variant area
  • Tremendous agronomic package
5444CBRWRR — 110-Day RM (YGPL/RR)


  • New yield leader, dominates in good soils
  • Girthy ear
5593HXTRR — 110-Day RM (HXX/LL/RR)


  • Tremendous technology option
  • Handles high population
  • Excellent stress tolerance Burrus
BURRUS
621T — 112-Day RM (YGPL/RR2)


  • Big, big top-end yield potential
  • Prefers your best soils, plant it thick
  • Expect great plant health with strong stalks
Burrus 451T — 109-Day RM (YGPL/RR2)


  • Triple stack protection
  • Terrific yield with super fast drydown
  • Plant at medium populations
  • Good late-season plant intactness
Burrus 593P — 111-day RM (YGPL)


  • Offers beautiful plants, terrific top-end yield
  • Keep it on your best soils, plant thick
  • Excellent stalks and roots
Burrus 572RWR — 111-day RM (YGRW/RR2)


  • Outstanding root strength
  • Good standability across soils and geography
  • Plant it thick for maximum performance
CROPLAN GENETICS
5701RR — 106-Day RM (RR)


  • 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
5891CR — 107-Day RM (Corn RW with RR)


  • 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
6238RH — 111-Day RM (RR/HXBt)


  • 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
6440RB — 112-day RM (RR with MON810 Bt)


  • 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
CROW'S
4846T — 110-Day RM (RR2/YGPL)


  • 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
4940T — 111-Day RM (RR2/YGPL)


  • 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
3846T — 105-Day RM (RR2/YGPL)


  • 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
4616T — 108-Day RM (RR2/YGPL)


  • 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

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