# DKC092-14RIB BRAND BLEND - **Vendor:** Bayer - **Brand:** Dekalb - **Crop:** Corn - **Relative maturity:** 92 - **Traits:** VT4PRIB (VT4PRO™ RIB Complete® Corn Blend) - **Release year:** 2025 - **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/dekalb/dekalb-dkc092-14rib-corn - **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best) --- ## Positioning DKC092-14RIB Brand Blend is a VT4PRO™ Technology product with incredible yield potential that is broadly adapted to the 90 and early 95RM zone. ## Strengths & management - Incredible yield potential that is broadly adapted to 90 & early 95 RM zone - Has exhibited an adaptive, flex ear type responsive to a wide range of populations - Excellent emergence and vigor enables a wide planting window - Solid root strength and stalk strength enables normal to late harvest options ## Disease Ratings | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | GRAY LEAF SPOT | 6 | | COMMON RUST | 3 | | ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 2 | | GOSS'S WILT | 5 | | EYE SPOT | 3 | | NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT - RACE 1 | 5 | ## Growth | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | SEEDLING GROWTH | 2 | | EMERGENCE | 2 | | ROOT STRENGTH | 2 | | STALK STRENGTH | 2 | | DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 3 | | GREENSNAP TOLERANCE | 4 | | PLANT HEIGHT | Med Tall | | EAR PLACEMENT | Med High | ## Management | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1216 | | GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2310 | | VALUE ADDED TRAIT | VT4PRIB | | RELATIVE MATURITY | 92 | | PLANTING RATE | Medium | | NEW PRODUCT | NO | | VARIETY | 01104528 | ## Harvest | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | STAYGREEN | 3 | | 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 - **2026 South Dakota Product Guide** — agronomist: Jeff Fuls - **Wisconsin 2025** — agronomist: Sammie Brantner - **2026 Northern Indiana Seed Guide** — agronomist: Jason Harmon - **2025 South Dakota Product Guide** — agronomist: Jeff Fuls - **2025 South Dakota Product Guide** — agronomist: Gary Hegg - **2025 SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Luke Miller - **2026 Central & Western ND, MT/WY** — agronomist: Cody Oswald - **2025 Northeast Seed Guide** — agronomist: Shaun Heinbaugh - **2026 IDAHO, UTAH SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Dave Heimkes - **2025 MINNESOTA DEKALB-ASGROW SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Abby Ficker - **Wisconsin Seed Guide** — agronomist: Mike Hopke - **2025 Northern Indiana Seed Guide** — agronomist: Jason Harmon - **2025 South Dakota Product Guide** — agronomist: Jeff Spieler - **2026 Eastern Ohio DEKALB & Asgrow Guide** — agronomist: Brad Miller - **2026 South Dakota Product Guide** — agronomist: Jeff Spieler - **2025 Northern Ohio DEKALB & Asgrow Guide** — agronomist: Brad Miller - **2026 Washington, Oregon, SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Dave Heimkes - **2026 MINNESOTA DEKALB-ASGROW SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Abby Ficker - **NE Colorado, SE Wyoming and W. Nebraska** — agronomist: Dustin Schmer - **2026 Eastern ND / Northern MN** — agronomist: Grant Mehring - **Wisconsin 2025** — agronomist: Reid Gill - **2026 Northern North Dakota Seedguide** — agronomist: Courtney Meduna - **2025 IDAHO, UTAH SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Dave Heimkes - **2025 Washington, Oregon, SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Dave Heimkes - **NE Colorado, SE Wyoming and W. Nebraska** — agronomist: Dustin Schmer