Mycogen Seeds, a leading supplier of seed to the sunflower industry, has added a new, mid-oleic NuSun™ hybrid to its sunflower lineup for the 2000 growing season. 

8377NS is a mid-season NuSun hybrid with medium plant height, excellent uniformity and very good premature ripening tolerance. Widely adapted across mid-season growing areas, 8377NS was one of the top-yielding hybrids in 1998 Mycogen research trials. 

As with all NuSun sunflower hybrids, 8377NS produces an oil that needs no hydrogenation, is 20
percent lower in saturated fats than traditional sunflower oils, and has a saturated fat level of only 9 percent.

"With our leadership position in high-oleic sunflowers, and the elite genetics of our traditional sunflower hybrids, we’ve been able to fill a range of needs," says Paul Holmen, sunflower product manager for Mycogen Seeds. "Our hybrids produce higher oil contents, better standability and improved tolerance to premature ripening."

Mycogen Seeds offers a full lineup of other NuSun, high-oleic, confection and traditional oilseed
sunflower hybrids.

For more information about Mycogen Seeds and its products, contact your local Mycogen Seeds dealer or call (800) 380-7282.

A local business unit of Dow AgroSciences, Mycogen Seeds markets grain corn, silage corn and
nutritionally enhanced corn seed, as well as sunflower, canola, soybean, alfalfa and sorghum seed through the Corn Belt, the eastern United States and in major dairy areas throughout the nation. Mycogen is an acknowledged leader in developing technology-based products to control agricultural pests and improve food and fiber production.

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