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Product Overview

This product features a very wide area of adaptation. It performs well across Nebraska, Iowa and into Illinois and from U.S. 20 south. The ear type is medium between flex and determinate, allowing this hybrid to respond to high management and also to variable soils. It has an excellent score for Gosss Wilt and is very good against Northern and Southern Leaf Blights. It is the SmartStax version of LH 5847 VT2 PRO.

Key Features

  • Maturity 109.0 RM
  • Trait Smart Stax

Hybrid Advantages

  • SmartStax version of LH 5847 VT2 PRO
  • Excellent scores for Gosss Wilt and Leaf Blights
  • Moderate ear flex; responds to high management
  • Widely adapted east to west and north to south
Field X Field
  • Highly Productive and Irrigated Fields 2
  • Southern Moderately Productive / Average Fields Blight 1
  • Less Productive / Stressed Fields 2
Agronomic Characteristics
  • Emergence 2.5
  • Flowering for Maturity 0.0
  • Early Vigor 2.5
  • Stalk Strength 2.5
  • Root Strength 2.0
  • Stay Green 3.0
  • Drydown 2.5
  • Test Weight 2.5
  • Drought Tolerance 3.0
  • 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 Medium
  • Number of Kernel Rows 16-18
  • Cob Color Red
  • Husk Cover Medium
  • Shank Length Medium
  • Leaf Angle Semi-Upright
Disease Ratings
  • Goss's Wilt 1.5
  • Common Rust 2.0
  • Southern Leaf Blight 2.0
  • Northern Leaf Blight 2.0
  • Anthracnose Stalk Rot 2.5
  • Eye Spot 0.0
  • Gray Leaf Spot 3.0
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

LEGAL
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

LEGAL