the best seed corn for the money

Just curious what you all think is the best brand and number on the market for corn on corn. I've seen some real impressive yields and test weights the last couple years with pioneer, dekalb, krugers and steyer on different farms around here. Been hearing good things about Becks also.

This year was a great year on our farm. We plant a little Dekalb a little wyffels and a little dairyland. I am a seed rep. For wyffels hybrids so I am kind of bias towards the wyffels. The Dekalb and wyffels yielded about the same on average and the dairyland didnt fair out so well this year.

What wyffles number did you use todd?

How are the yields and test weights? Price per bag? I been using pioneer and have had great TW and dry down but would like to find something cheaper. I don't know what the market will be next fall and don't want to spend a fortune on seed if it isn't worth anything in the end.

Not corn on corn, but our best was Axis 64R05, 62.3 pound tw.

How much is a bag of seed corn these days? Range of prices?

allischalmerguy wrote: How much is a bag of seed corn these days? Range of prices?

Depends on how many you buy. 225 to 350 a bag. Depending on what traits you get also.
        IG

I miss Trelay out of Wisconsin. 6200 corn and 2445 soybeans.

Doesn't the brand and number depend somewhat on your location and soil type? It becomes a crapshoot of sorts depending on the weather too, yes?

CrestonM wrote: Last I heard (a few years ago) it was a nickel a kernel!

$4,000 a bag?! Wow!!! No, not quite that bad yet.

I think he's off a point. List is at least $.005 per kernel for Dekalb. DeKalb 47-35 was good for me and stood well. I had Cropland 4033 that yielded just as good the last couple years but this year didn't stand as well but it wasn't too bad. Other DeKalb numbers that did real good for me are 52-62 and 50-66 but I heard those numbers are becoming susceptible to certain diseases on certain years. I planted those back in 2011 and 12 and they were great then for me. I also had a Northrup King number right next to those two DeKalb numbers and there was a night and day difference. I don't remember the number but the yield was probably at least 15 bu less. It stood really good but that was all I could say that it did good. I also tried a Mycogen number (don't remember which) that yielded maybe better than DeKalb back in 2012 but it was down so bad I could hardly tell if I was in the rows when combining. Even so and thanks to my Gleaner corn head, it had a slightly better yield than the nice straight standing DeKalb next to it. But every year is different and different years and circumstance can make or break a certain variety. 

Edited by Lonn - 17 Dec 2015 at 7:12am

Becks also has a 100% replant guarantee on beans and corn if for any reason you dd have to replant

6175 is excellent... I had it yiled as high as 230 in my good soil...175-190 in my poorer ground...test weight was all 59 to 63 depending on the moisture...moisture was 17 to 13...it stands like a champ in the field as well... Where are you located at exactly

I'm in east central Iowa, the majority of the ground here is hilly clay. Yields are usually between 150 to 210 bu. on the better ground. I'm also still on wide rows @ 36 inches.

Continuous corn. Not a corn/soy or corn/wheat/soy rotation