# DKC119-30 BRAND - **Vendor:** Bayer - **Brand:** Dekalb - **Crop:** Corn - **Relative maturity:** 119 - **Traits:** VT4P (VT4PRO™ with RNAi Technology Corn Blend) - **Release year:** 2024 - **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/dekalb/dekalb-dkc119-30-corn - **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best) --- ## Positioning DKC119-30 Brand is a 119 RM VT4PRO™ Technology product with excellent yield performance potential and strong stress tolerance to enable broad acre placement. ## Strengths & management - Excellent yield performance potential with broad east to west adaptation - Very strong heat and drought stress tolerance - Solid disease tolerance package including Northern Corn Leaf Blight, Gray Leaf Spot, and Anthracnose Stalk Rot - Very good greensnap tolerance and Goss’s Wilt tolerance enables western movement - 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 | 5 | | ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 3 | | GOSS'S WILT | 4 | | EYE SPOT | 3 | | SOUTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | 2 | | NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT - RACE 1 | 4 | ## Growth | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | SEEDLING GROWTH | 3 | | EMERGENCE | 3 | | ROOT STRENGTH | 3 | | STALK STRENGTH | 3 | | DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 2 | | GREENSNAP TOLERANCE | 2 | | PLANT HEIGHT | Med Tall | | EAR PLACEMENT | Med High | ## Management | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1400 | | GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2970 | | VALUE ADDED TRAIT | VT4P | | RELATIVE MATURITY | 119 | | PLANTING RATE | Medium | | NEW PRODUCT | NO | | VARIETY | 01102500 | ## Harvest | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | STAYGREEN | 3 | | HARVEST APPEARANCE | 3 | | DRYDOWN | 5 | | 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 - **2026 Seed Guide** — agronomist: Greg Ferguson - **2025 Seed Guide** — agronomist: Greg Ferguson - **North Delta 2026** — agronomist: Josh Rupard - **Texas -- South of I-10** — agronomist: Scott Stanislav - **Carolina's** — agronomist: Jim Kiser - **Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2025#2** — agronomist: Eddie Beasley - **Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2025#2** — agronomist: Vint Hicks - **Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2026** — agronomist: Eddie Beasley - **Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2026#2** — agronomist: Vint Hicks - **North and Central TX** — agronomist: Steve Carlson - **2026 CAROLINAS PIEDMONT** — agronomist: Jim Kiser