FS Seed recently released their 2006 product line up.  This line up includes 33 new corn hybrids and 12 new soybean varieties.   

This 2006 FS Seed product year marks a new milestone in FS Soybean products.  This year is the 40th anniversary of the proprietary FS Soybean line of HiSOY® products.  Tom Hunsley, FS HiSOY product manager for GROWMARK, Inc. proudly states, “Even now, 40 years after their first introduction, our advanced genetics, improved varieties and rigorous qualitative testing have only made FS HiSOY products better for our customers.” 

The new 2006 FS HiSOY Soybean products include the following:

HS 2345 is a mid Group II Roundup Ready® variety with a tall canopy and excellent ability to adapt to stress and lighter soils. It has good standability and emergence. It has a Rps 1c Phytophthora Root Rot resistance gene and handles most Iron Chlorosis environments.

HS 2645 is a mid Group II Roundup Ready® variety with a tall canopy and excellent ability to adapt to stress and lighter soils. It has good standability and emergence. It has a Rps 1c Phytophthora Root Rot resistance gene and handles most Iron Chlorosis environments.

HS 2846 is a late Group II Roundup Ready® variety with SCN resistance. It is a very attractive plant type that is medium tall in height and medium in width. It has the Rps 1c gene for Phytophthora Root Rot resistance and is resistant to Brown Stem Rot. It emerges quickly and stands well to harvest.

HS 3046 is a very early Group III Roundup Ready® variety with excellent yield potential and strong cyst resistance. It is a relatively tall variety with very good standability and a good shattering score. It has the Rps 1c gene for Phytophthora Root Rot resistance, has good Brown Stem Rot resistance. It shows good field resistance to Sclerotinia White Mold and Sudden Death Syndrome.

HS 3048 is an early Group III Roundup Ready® variety with the CystX® Silver brand of SCN resistance. It is a medium height variety with a medium width canopy type.  HS 3048 emerges and stands well.

HS 3346 is a mid Group III Roundup Ready® variety with SCN resistance. It emerges and stands well and tolerates drought stress very well. It is medium tall and has a medium width canopy that will work in all row widths. It has the Rps 1k gene for Phytophthora Root Rot resistance and is resistant to Brown Sterm Rot.

HS 3348 is a mid Group III Roundup Ready® variety with the CystX® Silver SCN resistance. It is a medium height variety with a medium width canopy type. HS 3348 emerges and stands well and is currently being screened for phytophtora resistance and it has field tolerance to Phytophthora Root Rot.

HS 3646 is a mid Group III Roundup Ready® variety with SCN resistance and exceptional yield performance. It has the Rps 1c gene for Phytophthora Root Rot resistance and moderate resistance to Brown Stem Rot and Sclerotinia White Mold. It has very good Sudden Death Syndrome and Frogeye Leaf Spot resistance. It has great yield for the highly productive soils and will maintain its height and productivity under more stressful conditions as well.

HS 3846 is a late Group III Roundup Ready® variety with SCN. It has the Rps 1c for Phytophthora Root Rot resistance and good field resistance to Phytophthora, Sudden Death Syndrome and Brown Stem Rot.  It is relatively tall with good canopy width which should allow its use in all row widths.

HS 4046 is a very early Group IV Roundup Ready® variety with SCN resistance. It is a wider canopy variety with a lot of branching that is an excellent offensive variety that can stand a lot of stress and go south well. It emerges well and has good standability when plant populations are kept at moderate levels. It has very good Frogeye Leaf Spot and Sudden Death Syndrome field resistance, as well as satisfactory Phytophthora Root Rot tolerance.

HS 4341 is a traditional mid Group IV variety with SCN resistance. It has a medium tall plant type and a good standability score. Research tests have shown it to have a significant yield advantage over many popular varieties. It has good field tolerance to Phytophthora Root Rot and good tolerance to Sudden Death Syndrome and Brown Stem Rot.

HS 4646 is a mid-Group IV Roundup Ready® variety with SCN resistance that shows yield advantages over many popular varieties. It is a medium height variety with an intermediate canopy that should work well in all row widths. It has very good emergence, good standability. It has good field tolerance to Phytophthora Root Rot and Sudden Death Syndrome.

FS Seed Corn also has a great line up for 2006. “FS Corn is keeping pace with advancing seed technologies, proven performance and new genetics.” says Jim Happel, FS seed corn product manager for GROWMARK Inc. “We have built the FS Seed corn product line as one of the broadest seed lines available for customer needs.”

The new 2006 FS Corn Hybrids include a few of the following:

FS 4886 RR, a 104 day hybrid, is the Roundup Ready® version of our popular FS 4882 genetics. FS 4886 RR has fast emergence and early spring vigor with excellent stalks and roots.

FS 5086 YGCB, a 105 day hybrid, offers high performance with solid agronomics to rapidly make it a market leader. Quick to emerge and fast to dry, this hybrid has the advantage over later-maturing hybrids.

FS 5266 RR/YGPL, a 107 day hybrid, is a triple-stacked Biotech hybrid. Similar in genetics to FS 5221, it has good fall appearance and very high yield potential.

FS 6297 RR/YGCB, a 110 day hybrid, offers very similar genetics to FS 6196. It has excellent emergence; great early vigor in the spring; and great disease tolerance in the fall, and excellent yield potential.

FS 6466 RR/YGPL, a 112 day hybrid, is a triple-stacked hybrid with the same outstanding genetics as FS 6432. Growers can depend on the outstanding yields this genetic platform has provided in the past.

FS 6737 YGCB, a 113 day hybrid, is the YieldGard® Corn Borer version of, FS 6735.  It will have the same great stalk, root and grain quality as FS 6735 and excellent yield potential.

FS 6756 RR/YGCB, a 113 day hybrid, has excellent disease resistance combined with a sound agronomy package. It has very good fall integrity combined with excellent yield potential and will work in all soil types.

FS 7347 RR/YGCB, a 116 day hybrid, a genetic mate to FS 7346 YGCB, will respond to high management, though its ear flex will allow this hybrid to be used where high populations are limited.  As with FS 7346 YGCB, this new hybrid is most impressive at harvest with its excellent staygreen and high yields.

7436 YGCB, a 117 day hybrid, is a hybrid that is widely adaptable to all soils and environmental conditions across the FS market territory.  FS 7436 YGCB has the outstanding yield and agronomics needed to make it a leading hybrid.

7467 RR/YGCB, a 117 day hybrid, can be used for silage, but is best suited for grain production.  It offers a great deal of tolerance to heat and drought stress.  For a tall hybrid, it has excellent standability and good roots.

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