Key Strengths
- High top end yields
- Can be used for grain or silage
- Quick drydown
- Very good grain quality
Management Tips
- Responds well to high management
- Large plant type increase silage yield
- Good standability late into the season
- Moderate populations work well
- Consider a fungicide if following corn
Herbicide Tolerance
- Growth Regulators O
- Pigment Inhibitors O
- Sulfonylurea’s O
HT-5966 is a big hybrid that works great as a high production grain or silage number. Its agronomics and disease ratings support the high yield potential, although a fungicide application may be rewarding. Ultimately this hybrid’s perrformance will impress you in high yield environments with adequate management.
Value Added Trait Options
VT2P, SS
| Category | General Characteristics | |
| Planting Management | Planting Rate | M |
| Emergence | 8 | |
| No-Till Adaption | 7 | |
| Corn / Corn Adaption | 7 | |
| Plant Growth & Development Ratings | Ear Type | Semi-Flex |
| Root Strength | 7 | |
| Stalk Strength | 8 | |
| Green Snap | 8 | |
| Drought Tolerance | 7 | |
| Plant Height | T | |
| Ear Placement | MH | |
| Disease Resistance Ratings | NCLB | 6 |
| SCLB | NA | |
| Grey Leaf Spot | 6 | |
| Eye Spot | NA | |
| Rust | 5 | |
| Goss’s Wilt | 7 | |
| Anthracnose Stalk Rot | 8 | |
| Diplodia | NA | |
| Harvest Ratings | Staygreen | 7 |
| Harvest Appearance | 7 | |
| Drydown | 8 | |
| Grain Quality | 8 | |
| Test Weight | 8 | |
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