As we work our way through harvest, one of the events we look forward to is harvesting our corn test plot. A lot of time and thought go into choosing hybrids for this plot. This plot is an extremely vital part of our operation’s decision making process for the next year’s corn varieties.
Because our operation focuses heavily on corn varieties that use hybrids with less insect traits than the companies are pushing, there is little plot data available to help us make decisions on these hybrids. This is a part of our broad plan to deal with corn insect resistance issues.
Here is our test plot result listed in order planted.
| Harvested on 10/26/2013 | |||||||
| Company | Variety | Maturity | Yield | Ears in 17.5′ | Moisture | Test wt | |
| 1 | Kruger | 4195VT2P | 95 | 160.97 | 23 | 17.8 | 57 |
| 2 | Wensman | 8148VT2P | 95 | 172.59 | 27 | 19.5 | 56 |
| 3 | Channel | 197-31VT2P | 97 | 167.93 | 31 | 20.9 | 55.5 |
| 4 | Dekalb | 48-40RR | 98 | 166.6 | 30 | 18.6 | 56 |
| 5 | Gold Country | 99-04VT3P | 99 | 182.29 | 31 | 19.8 | 58 |
| 6 | Wensman | 8294VT2RIB | 99 | 160.65 | 27 | 20.2 | 56 |
| 7 | Wensman | 7290VT3P | 99 | 168.37 | 28 | 19.3 | 57 |
| 8 | Dekalb | 50-66VT3P | 100 | 161.99 | 22 | 16.5 | 57 |
| 9 | Kruger | 7400VT3P | 100 | 168.09 | 28 | 18 | 56 |
| 10 | Latham | 5185VT2P | 101 | 157.4 | 31 | 21.1 | 54 |
| 11 | Dekalb | 52-61VT2P | 102 | 167.16 | 28 | 17.3 | 56 |
| 12 | Pioneer | 0392AMX | 102 | 153.18 | 30 | 18.5 | 56 |
| 13 | Pioneer | 0062AMX | 102 | 179.52 | 26 | 17.4 | 55 |
| 14 | Kruger | 6102VT3 | 102 | 171.24 | 32 | 17.2 | 56 |
| 15 | Pioneer | 0297XR | 102 | 169.42 | 33 | 20.2 | 55 |
| 16 | Latham | 5215VT2P | 102 | 171.19 | 32 | 21.4 | 55 |
| 17 | Gold Country | 103-09 VT3 | 103 | 170.9 | 29 | 18.8 | 56 |
| 18 | Pioneer | 0533AM1 | 104 | 163.58 | 30 | 21.6 | 56 |
| 19 | Kruger | 4104VT2P | 104 | 173.84 | 31 | 21.5 | 55 |
| 20 | Pioneer | 0407AMXT | 104 | 170.31 | 32 | 21.8 | 55 |
| 21 | Channel | 197-31VT2P | 97 | 168.97 | 32 | 18.3 | 56.5 |
