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Product Overview

This new SmartStax Pro hybrid has a sound agronomic package with great stalks and roots along with very good green snap tolerance. LH 5668 does have a more fixed ear style which requires higher popultions for best yields. This new protection from rootworms will allow growers more flexibilty on those acres with heavy rootworm infestations. Plant in your long term corn on corn fields to maximize yield on those acres.

Key Features

  • Maturity 106.0 RM
  • Trait Smart Stax Pro

Hybrid Advantages

  • Performs best at higher populations
  • Semi-fixed ear with great response to fungicide
  • Three modes of action against corn rootworm
  • Plant on acres with heavy CRW pressure to maximize trait protection
Field X Field
  • Highly Productive and Irrigated Fields 1
  • Southern Moderately Productive / Average Fields Blight 1
  • Less Productive / Stressed Fields 2
Agronomic Characteristics
  • Emergence 2.0
  • Flowering for Maturity 0.0
  • Early Vigor 2.0
  • Stalk Strength 2.0
  • Root Strength 2.0
  • Stay Green 2.5
  • Drydown 2.0
  • Test Weight 2.0
  • Drought Tolerance 2.0
  • Foliar Fungicide 0.0
  • Herbicide Sensitivity 0.0
  • Suggested Population 30-36
  • Corn-on-Corn 1.5
  • Stress Tolerance 0.0
  • Row Spacing
  • SCN Resistance
Plant Characteristics
  • Plant Height
  • Ear Height Medium
  • Ear Type Semi-Determinate
  • Number of Kernel Rows 16-18
  • Cob Color Red
  • Husk Cover Medium
  • Shank Length Medium
  • Leaf Angle Semi-Upright
Disease Ratings
  • Goss's Wilt 2.0
  • Common Rust 1.5
  • Southern Leaf Blight 1.5
  • Northern Leaf Blight 2.5
  • Anthracnose Stalk Rot 2.5
  • Eye Spot 1.5
  • Gray Leaf Spot 2.0
Key
Rating Scale

1 = Excellent; 2 = Very Good; 3 = Good; 4 = Fair; 5 = Poor; N/A = Not Applicable

Herbicide Sensitivity

PI = Pigment Inhibitors; Pre PI = Pigment Inhibitors applied Pre-Emergence; SU = Sulfonylureas; GR = Growth Regulators

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Key
Rating Scale

1 = Excellent; 2 = Very Good; 3 = Good; 4 = Fair; 5 = Poor; N/A = Not Applicable

Phytophthora Root Rot Race Resistance

Resistant varieties carry the major gene reported to be resistant to these races: Rps1-a: 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 15-18, 24, 26,27; Rps1-k: 1-11, 13-15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 26; Rps6: 1-4, 10, 12, 14-16, 18-21, 25; Rps1-c: 1-3, 6-11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 24, 26; Rps3-a: 1-5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 23, 25

Varieties containing these genes are resistant to the following races of Soybean Cyst Nematode:

Pl88788: F= 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14; Peking: P= 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15

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