# DKC106-98RIB BRAND BLEND - **Vendor:** Bayer - **Brand:** Dekalb - **Crop:** Corn - **Relative maturity:** 106 - **Traits:** VT4PRIB (VT4PRO™ RIB Complete® Corn Blend) - **Release year:** 2024 - **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/dekalb/dekalb-dkc106-98rib-corn - **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best) --- ## Positioning DKC106-98RIB Brand Blend is a 106 RM product with impressive yield performance potential, excellent test weight, as well as stress tolerance. ## Strengths & management - Impressive yield performance potential with outstanding stress tolerance with potential for southern movement - Nice balanced plant stature with medium plant and ear height with semi-flex ear type with excellent test weight - Strong fungal disease tolerance package including Northern Corn Leaf Blight, Gray Leaf Spot, and Southern Rust - Excellent root strength and greensnap tolerance - VT4PRO™ Technology provides enhanced above ground protection with RNAi Technology for corn root worm protection ## Disease Ratings | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | GRAY LEAF SPOT | 4 | | COMMON RUST | 3 | | SOUTHERN RUST | 4 | | ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 3 | | GOSS'S WILT | 5 | | EYE SPOT | 3 | | SOUTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | 3 | | NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT - RACE 1 | 4 | ## Growth | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | SEEDLING GROWTH | 3 | | EMERGENCE | 3 | | ROOT STRENGTH | 2 | | STALK STRENGTH | 2 | | DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 2 | | GREENSNAP TOLERANCE | 2 | | PLANT HEIGHT | Medium | | EAR PLACEMENT | Medium | ## Management | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1320 | | GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2655 | | VALUE ADDED TRAIT | VT4PRIB | | RELATIVE MATURITY | 106 | | PLANTING RATE | Med High | | NEW PRODUCT | NO | | VARIETY | 01102551 | ## Harvest | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | STAYGREEN | 3 | | HARVEST APPEARANCE | 3 | | DRYDOWN | 4 | | TEST WEIGHT | 2 | ## 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 | 16 | ## Regional seed-guide listings - **2027 Product Guide** — agronomist: Jeffrey Fuls