# 214-78R BRAND - **Vendor:** Bayer - **Brand:** Channel - **Crop:** Corn - **Relative maturity:** 114 - **Traits:** RR2 (Roundup Ready® Corn 2) - **Release year:** 2025 - **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/channel/channel-214-78r-corn - **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best) --- ## Strengths & management - Excellent yield performance potential across yield environments - Broadly adapted west to east in the 115 RM zone - Great emergence and drought tolerance - Good ear flex allows product to perform at lower planting populations ## Maturity | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2830 | | GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1390 | | RELATIVE MATURITY | 114 | ## Agronomic Characteristics | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 2 | | DRYDOWN | 3 | | EAR FLEX (GRAIN YIELD PER PLANT) | SD | | EAR HEIGHT | MH | | GREENSNAP | 4 | | HARVEST APPEARANCE | 3 | | PLANT HEIGHT | MT | | ROOT STRENGTH | 2 | | SEEDLING VIGOR | 3 | | STALK STRENGTH | 4 | | TEST WEIGHT | 3 | ## Disease | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 4 | | GOSS'S WILT | 5 | | GRAY LEAF SPOT | 4 | | NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT R1 | 4 | | SOUTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | 3 | | SOUTHERN RUST | 5 | ## Adaptation | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | FOCUS AREA | W,C,E | ## Herbicides | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY | A | | PIGMENT INHIBITORS SENSITIVITY | A | | SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY | A | ## Other | Characteristic | Value | |---|---| | FUSARIUM EAR ROT | Average | | DIPLODIA EAR ROT | Average | | KERNEL ROW | 18 | | EMERGENCE | 2 | | TRAIT | RR2 | | VARIETY | 01091514 | ## Regional seed-guide listings - **Lauren Botine's Product List 2025** — agronomist: Lauren Botine - **2024-2025 East Central NE Corn Grain Product List** — agronomist: Andrew Swanson - **2025 SW Indiana Product Characteristics and Management** — agronomist: Brian Denning - **SW Ohio Corn, Soybeans, and Silage MY25** — agronomist: Sam Park