n.c.iowa | planted 54-38 in several fields last year. I guess I was making a analogy between 53-68 series, and 54-38 and didn't really finish my thought. anyway they both blast out of the ground, are good on corn on corn, good plant health, and in the case of 54-38 (don't know about 53-68 yet) had good stand ability. the issue I got with with 54-38 is that I had it on some really productive ground and it really didn't do much, my 50-84 cruised right on by it. it yielded pretty good but by the way my 54-38 looked all season I was really disappointed.
in talking with my dsm about this and he is kinda leery of 54-38 he in isolated cases has seen this where in as the yield environment is very good and 54-38 tops out early. he mentioned that there is a pile of it planted in NE iowa and Minnesota. his fear is if we have a warm pollination and grain fill period it's gonna crash, badly.
46-20 is a interesting hybrid, we haven't planted it in a couple of years, and I really don't know why. it was a good, stable, hybrid that gave me some really good yields, it appreciated alittle fungicide. i think they got a new 45 or 46 something in my plot that is supposed to be the next big thing. |