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2008 Corn Weed
Control Guide
2007 Soybean Weed
Control Guide
Weeds (select up to 4)
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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