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+# DKC68-94 BRAND
+
+- **Vendor:** Bayer
+- **Brand:** Dekalb
+- **Crop:** Corn
+- **Relative maturity:** 118
+- **Traits:** RR2 (Roundup Ready® Corn 2)
+- **Release year:** 2024
+- **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/dekalb/dekalb-dkc68-94-corn
+- **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best)
+
+---
+## Positioning
+
+DKC68-94 Brand is a 118 RM product that can deliver excellent yield potential along with performance stability on a short stature plant chassis with very good husk cover, grain quality and test weight.  An attractive, full canopy type of product; it may offer flexibility and versatility across all soil types and crop rotations.
+
+## Strengths & management
+
+- Product has showcased very good emergence and seedling vigor
+- Product has shown strong Southern Rust and very good Southern Corn Leaf Blight tolerance for excellent southern movement
+- Excellent root and very good stalk strength
+- Wide full canopy to benefit wider planting row configurations
+- Medium plant and ear height has been displayed by this product
+- Has shown very good grain quality and test weight
+- Product has shown a semi-fixed ear type with girth and prefers medium to medium high planting populations
+- Avoid utilization in fields with a history of Goss's Wilt; Western corn belt movement limited
+- Drydown slows as product moves North
+
+## Disease Ratings
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| GRAY LEAF SPOT | 3 |
+| SOUTHERN RUST | 3 |
+| ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 3 |
+| GOSS'S WILT | 6 |
+| SOUTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | 2 |
+| NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT - RACE 1 | 5 |
+
+## Growth
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| SEEDLING GROWTH | 3 |
+| EMERGENCE | 3 |
+| ROOT STRENGTH | 2 |
+| STALK STRENGTH | 2 |
+| DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 3 |
+| GREENSNAP TOLERANCE | 3 |
+| PLANT HEIGHT | Medium |
+| EAR PLACEMENT | Medium |
+
+## Management
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1390 |
+| GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2960 |
+| VALUE ADDED TRAIT | RR2 |
+| RELATIVE MATURITY | 118 |
+| PLANTING RATE | Medium |
+| NEW PRODUCT | NO |
+| VARIETY | 01105877 |
+
+## Harvest
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| STAYGREEN | 3 |
+| HARVEST APPEARANCE | 3 |
+| DRYDOWN | 4 |
+| TEST WEIGHT | 3 |
+
+## Herbicide
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY | A |
+| ISOXAZOLES SENSITIVITY - PREEMERGENCE | A |
+| SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY | A |
+
+## Plant Description
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| COB COLOR | Red |
+| KERNEL CAP COLOR | Yellow |
+| KERNEL ROW | 18 |
+
+## Regional seed-guide listings
+
+- **Eastern NC / Southeast VA** — agronomist: Richard Strecker
+- **South Carolina/ SE North Carolina** — agronomist: James Bookhart