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+# DKC45-74RIB BRAND BLEND
+
+- **Vendor:** Bayer
+- **Brand:** Dekalb
+- **Crop:** Silage
+- **Traits:** SSRIB (SmartStax® RIB Complete® corn blend)
+- **Release year:** 2023
+- **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/silage/dekalb/dekalb-dkc45-74rib-silage
+- **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best)
+
+---
+## Positioning
+
+DKC45-74RIB Brand Blend is a 95 RM product that can deliver great yield potential with broad adaptation and versatility across soil types and crop rotations. This product has a very attractive canopy with wide leaves, good staygreen, and consistent ear placement down the row.
+
+## Strengths & management
+
+- Broadly adapted product with utilization from east to west with great yield potential
+- Very strong emergence package as an option for early planting
+- Strong disease tolerance package including Northern Corn Leaf Blight, Anthracnose Stalk Rot, and Goss’s Wilt
+- Solid agronomic package including good root and stalk strength and very good greensnap tolerance
+- Medium-tall plant height with balanced, medium ear placement has shown good kernel depth, test weight, tip fill, and husk cover
+- Semi-flex ear type that has shown good performance at medium populations
+- Has shown very good stress tolerance
+
+## Management
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| VALUE ADDED TRAIT | SSRIB |
+| RELATIVE MATURITY | 95 |
+| GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1260 |
+| GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2400 |
+| PLANTING RATE | Medium |
+| SILAGE PROVEN | No |
+| NEW PRODUCT | NO |
+| VARIETY | 01090003 |
+
+## Plant Description
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| COB COLOR | Red |
+| KERNEL CAP COLOR | Yellow |
+| KERNEL ROW | 16 |
+
+## Growth
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| EMERGENCE | 2 |
+| SEEDLING GROWTH | 2 |
+| ROOT STRENGTH | 3 |
+| STALK STRENGTH | 2 |
+| DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 2 |
+| GREENSNAP | 2 |
+| PLANT HEIGHT | Med Tall |
+| EAR PLACEMENT | Medium |
+
+## Harvest
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| STAYGREEN | 2 |
+| HARVEST APPEARANCE | 2 |
+| DRYDOWN | 2 |
+| TEST WEIGHT | 3 |
+
+## Diseases
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | 4 |
+| ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 2 |
+| GOSS'S WILT | 4 |
+
+## Herbicide
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY | A |
+| SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY | A |
+| ISOXAZOLES SENSITIVITY - PRE-EMERGENCE | A |
+
+## Silage Characteristics
+
+| Characteristic | Value |
+|---|---|
+| NDFD 24 HR | 3 |
+| NDFD 30 HR | 4 |
+| % OF STARCH | 3 |
+| IVSD7HR | 3 |
+| SILAGE YIELD | 2 |
+| MILK PER TON | 4 |
+| MILK PER ACRE | 3 |
+
+## Regional seed-guide listings
+
+- **Northeast Colorado and Western Nebraska** — agronomist: Dustin Schmer