# Stine MX553-0

- **Vendor:** Stine Seed Company (independent family-owned breeder, Adel, IA)
- **Brand:** Stine
- **Crop:** Corn
- **Relative maturity:** 105 days (representative)
- **Trait(s):** Conventional
- **Source:** https://www.stineseed.com/corn/traits/conventional-corn/mx553-0/
- **Rating scale:** corn agronomic+disease 1-9 numeric, 9=Excellent/best/most-tolerant, 8=Very Good, 7=Good, 6=Average, 5=Below Average (higher=better, same direction as Bayer/NK; blank/'-'=not rated); soybeans qualitative (Excellent/Very Good/Good for vigor; Resistant/Strong/Good/Susceptible for disease, Resistant/Strong=best); SCN row gives source (e.g. Peking) and RPS Gene gives the gene, not a rating; plant/soil/herbicide rows qualitative (Tall, Highly Recommended/Recommended, Yes/No)
- **Service area:** Stine dealer network — Corn Belt (IA/IL/IN/MN/NE/MO etc.)

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## Agronomic Characteristics

- **Maturity (RM range):** 104 - 106
- **GDD:** 2650
- **MN Maturity:** 105
- **Harvest Population:** High-Very High
- **Drydown:** 8
- **Root:** 7
- **Stalk:** 7
- **Stress:** 8
- **Cold Emergence:** 8
- **Test Weight:** 7

## Disease Ratings

- **Gray Leaf Spot:** 8
- **Eye Spot:** 7
- **N.C. Leaf Blight:** 8
- **Anthracnose:** 7
- **Goss' Wilt:** 7

## Plant Description

- **Plant Height:** Medium
- **Ear Placement:** Medium-Tall
- **Ear Flex:** Semi-Fixed
- **Cob Color:** Pink

## Soil & Placement

- **Corn-on-Corn:** No
- **Sand:** Recommended
- **Loam:** Highly Recommended
- **Clay:** Recommended
- **Wide Rows:** Highly Recommended
- **Narrow Rows:** Highly Recommended
- **Population % in 30" or Wider Rows:** 105% of normal
- **Population % in Narrow Rows:** 110% of normal

## Herbicide Tolerance

- **Glyphosate Tolerant:** No
- **Glufosinate Tolerant:** No
