# DKC093-77RIB BRAND BLEND - **Vendor:** Bayer - **Brand:** Dekalb - **Crop:** Corn - **Relative maturity:** 93 - **Traits:** VT2PRIB (VT Double PRO® RIB Complete® corn blend) - **Release year:** 2024 - **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/dekalb/dekalb-dkc093-77rib-corn - **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best) --- ## Positioning DKC093-77RIB Brand Blend is broadly adapted product with excellent yield performance potential, an attractive field appearance, and has shown good northern movement. ## Strengths & management - Excellent emergence and seedling vigor enabling wide planting window potential - Attractive statured plant with medium tall plant height - Solid northern disease tolerance package including Northern Corn Leaf Blight, Anthracnose Stalk Rot, and Goss’s Wilt - Has demonstrated solid stalk strength and average root strength ## Disease Ratings | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | GRAY LEAF SPOT | 5 | | ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 2 | | GOSS'S WILT | 4 | | NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT - RACE 1 | 4 | ## Growth | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | SEEDLING GROWTH | 2 | | EMERGENCE | 2 | | ROOT STRENGTH | 3 | | STALK STRENGTH | 2 | | DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 3 | | GREENSNAP TOLERANCE | 3 | | PLANT HEIGHT | Med Tall | | EAR PLACEMENT | Med High | ## Management | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1230 | | GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2325 | | VALUE ADDED TRAIT | VT2PRIB | | RELATIVE MATURITY | 93 | | PLANTING RATE | Medium | | NEW PRODUCT | NO | | VARIETY | 01096599 | ## Harvest | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | STAYGREEN | 2 | | HARVEST APPEARANCE | 2 | | DRYDOWN | 2 | | 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 - **North Dakota & Northern MN** — agronomist: Cody Oswald