Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
July 8, 2015
Mycogen Seeds is helping growers in the western Corn Belt manage multiple environmental variables with a holistic solution: its new stress-tolerant corn portfolio. Unveiled today, the stress-tolerant portfolio features hybrids with a strong agronomic foundation, bred to handle a range of challenges common to the western Corn Belt — including disease and insect pressure, water availability and extreme heat.
“Raising corn in the High Plains is not easy, and growers face more challenges than drought alone,” says Cole Hansen, U.S. corn marketing leader for Mycogen Seeds and a Nebraska native. “We have developed our stress-tolerant line-up to suit the growing conditions in the western Corn Belt, with hybrids that withstand many of the yield-reducing factors it presents.”
2015-16 STRESS-TOLERANT HYBRID PORTFOLIO
Mycogen Seeds’ stress-tolerant hybrids are highly rated for Goss’s wilt, high-pH soils, greensnap, and have flex ear to support a range of populations and improved pollination during heat. The hybrids are also drought tolerant. The company uses a local, targeted approach to screening for tolerance to these stresses. The portfolio has proven itself in a variety of challenging environments.
Rigorous testing delivers proven performance
“Hybrid performance is a combination of the right genetics, environmental conditions and management practices,” says Doug Barker, western Corn Belt breeding leader for Dow AgroSciences. “The right genetics establish top-end yield potential. It’s what helps the plant adapt to or overcome environmental conditions.”
Once a hybrid meets specific agronomic criteria, it moves on to testing. Mycogen Seeds pressure-tests these hybrids in a western Corn Belt managed stress environment (MSE) to carefully understand yield response at various intervals of plant development.
Stress-tolerant hybrids are classified as:
- Rugged hybrids — Consistent yielders in tougher growing conditions and lower-yield environments*
- All-star hybrids — Excellent yield in low- and high-yield environments**
Mycogen Seeds’ stress-tolerant hybrids help growers in the western Corn Belt respond to the full range of local stresses, including Goss’s wilt, high-pH soils, greensnap and drought.
“Rigorous testing tells us how hybrids respond to each stress factor to more precisely place the hybrid in the field and help growers manage them,” Barker says.
The Mycogen Seeds Agronomy Services team specializes in helping growers place and manage hybrids. Growers can look to their local Mycogen representative or dealer for assistance selecting, planting and managing stress-tolerant hybrids.
“Growers only have one shot at their corn yield,” Hansen says. “Choosing stress-tolerant hybrids helps ensure they’re putting up the best defense against local stresses to maximize yield potential.”
For more information about Mycogen® brand corn hybrids, contact your local Mycogen Seeds representative or visit Mycogen.com.
Please see the attached graphic for information on the 2015-16 stress-tolerant hybrid portfolio.
About Mycogen Seeds
Mycogen Seeds is one of America’s fastest-growing seed companies, offering leading genetics in corn, soybeans, silage corn, sunflowers and canola. A retail seed company of Dow AgroSciences LLC, Mycogen Seeds maintains a robust global research and development program to bring growers high-performance genetics with the latest trait technologies. Working together, the people of Mycogen Seeds help growers find opportunity in every acre. For more information about Mycogen brand products, visitmycogen.com. Follow Mycogen Seeds on Facebook and YouTube.
About Dow AgroSciences
Dow AgroSciences discovers, develops, and brings to market crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions for the growing world. Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and had annual global sales of $7.3 billion in 2014. Learn more at www.dowagro.com. Follow Dow AgroSciences on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+, or subscribe to our News Release RSS Feed.
* Multiyear performance compared with widely grown drought and conventional hybrids in high-stress environments. Based on more than 20,000 high-stress western U.S. location comparisons. High-stress locations averaged less than 150 bu./A and typically were unable to meet plant evapotranspiration water demand or were limited by high-pH soils or the presence of Goss’ wilt or greensnap.
** Multiyear performance compared with widely grown drought and conventional hybrids in low-stress environments. Based on more than 100,000 low-stress western U.S. comparisons where location yield averaged more than 180 bu./A and water or nutrients were not limiting.
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