By TIM ALEXANDER
Illinois Correspondent VANDALIA, Ill. — Croplan’s 6463 SS-technology produced an outstanding 227.9 bushels per acre during an early-season corn yield test conducted at the farm of Ronnie Sloan in Fayette County.
This earned Croplan a first-place ranking in yield production among 54 seed varieties tested by Farmer’s Independent Research of Seed Technologies (F.I.R.S.T.) on-site.
The 2010 Better Hybrids harvest report for southern Illinois, issued Aug. 30, shows that Wyffels’ XW6927 variety finished a close second, with 226.5 bushels per acre, followed by Stone’s 681-76VT3 at 226. Sloan’s test plot did not go unchallenged, weather-wise, noted F.I.R.S.T. Manager Eric W. Beyers.
“Strong winds from thunderstorms in early July produced green snapping in some hybrids prior to flowering,” Beyers commented. “Hybrids affected by the green snapping experienced yield reductions” but root lodging was minimal. Gray leaf spot, common rust and Stewart’s wilt leaf diseases presented moderate challenges, he concluded.
Sloan’s Croplan harvest, which was seeded in moderately drained, Crowden silty clay loam, placed third in gross income with $907 per acre; the high honor was earned by the Wyffels’ entry, at $927.50. Stone finished second, at $907.40 per acre.
The plot was planted on ground seeded with soybeans the previous year and treated with the herbicide Roundup.
Late season test LG Seeds’ LG2641VT3 brand earned top honors in the full-season corn yield test conducted by F.I.R.S.T, also at the Sloan farm.
An Aug. 28 harvest revealed that the LG variety produced a yield of 224.1 bushels per acre, besting Great Heart’s HT-212VT3 (220.8) and Dairyland’s ST9313 (218.7). The products also finished in that ranking order in gross income, with LG earning top at $899.20 per acre.
Moisture content was a concern, at 24.5 percent in the LG variety and 23.3 percent in the Great Heart and Dairyland strains.
Sixty brands were measured during the late season test, which began April 20 with a seed rate of 32,000 per acre, and ended with a stand of 29,300 per acre.
A complete list of brands tested at the Sloan farm and other test results are available online at www.firstseedtests.com |
