Key Strengths
- Very useable hybrid
- Adaptable from I-80 to Mexico
- Works coast to coast
- Silage or super high grain yields
- Eye appealing even through harvest
Management Tips
- Can be used reasonably well for anything
- Has record-setting yield capabilities
- Will handle drought
- Partner with HT-7261
- No need to push populations
Herbicide Tolerance
- Growth Regulators O
- Pigment Inhibitors O
- Sulfonylurea’s O
HT-7240 is not bullet proof for anything but is good at everything. It is an easy choice for top yields on productive ground, but also for tougher drought prone soils. Some will plant it for an optional hybrid for grain or silage as the need dictates. Perfect for variable soils. Perhaps the best go-anywhere performance hybrid.
Value Added Trait Options
CONV / RR / VT2PRIB / SSRIB
| Category | General Characteristics | |
| Planting Management | Planting Rate | M |
| Emergence | 7 | |
| No-Till Adaption | 7 | |
| Corn / Corn Adaption | 8 | |
| Plant Growth & Development Ratings | Seedling Vigor | 7 |
| Root Strength | 7 | |
| Stalk Strength | 7 | |
| Green Snap | 8 | |
| Drought Tolerance | 8 | |
| Plant Height | MT | |
| Ear Placement | M | |
| Disease Resistance Ratings | NCLB | 8 |
| SCLB | 8 | |
| Grey Leaf Spot | 6 | |
| Eye Spot | NA | |
| Rust | NA | |
| Anthracnose Leaf Blight | 6 | |
| Anthracnose Stalk Rot | 5 | |
| Stewarts Leaf Blight | 5 | |
| Harvest Ratings | Staygreen | 8 |
| Harvest Appearance | 8 | |
| Drydown | 7 | |
| Grain Quality | 8 | |
| Test Weight | 8 | |
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