Garst Seed Company announces the release and availability of three new Garst Roundup Ready corn hybrids for the 1999 growing season. The three new Roundup Ready (RR) hybrids, Garst 8756RR, 8557RR and 8349RR combine the highly effective Roundup and Roundup Ultra™ herbicide resistance with top performing Garst genetics.

"We’re very excited about adding the Roundup Ready trait to our herbicide-resistant product offerings," says David Witherspoon. "Following Garst’s own ‘technology guidelines’, we focused on incorporating the Roundup resistance into some of our top-yielding, high performance genetics. And these three hybrids have proven themselves and we’re ready to move them into the market."

The three new Garst Roundup Ready corn hybrids include Garst 8756RR, 8557RR and 8349RR and cover the early, mid and full season maturity ranges that are preferred by Corn Belt growers.

Garst 8756RR is a tall, rugged 101 day GRM hybrid,
Garst 8557RR is a medium-tall, top yielding 109 day GRM hybrid, and
Garst 8349RR is a top-performing, full season 113 day GRM hybrid designed to get the most out of a long, weed-free growing season.

"We were very, very pleased with the yield results we’ve seen with our first Roundup Ready corn hybrids that were out in evaluation trials this past crop year," explains Gene Kassmeyer, Corn Product Manager for Garst. "They’ve met our goals for both yield performance and full-season plant stability while also adding the Roundup herbicide flexibility. We think our customers are really going to like the overall agronomic package that our breeders have enhanced with the Roundup resistance technology."

Roundup herbicide was introduced in the United States in l976 in premium weed control markets especially for controlling tough perennial weeds in a broad set of crops, trees, nuts and vines. Due to its effectiveness in controlling most major weeds, crop growers have embraced it’s effectiveness and have discovered some creative methods to make it part of their crops’ weed control program.