# DKC45-74RIB BRAND BLEND

- **Vendor:** Bayer
- **Brand:** Dekalb
- **Crop:** Silage
- **Traits:** SSRIB (SmartStax® RIB Complete® corn blend)
- **Release year:** 2023
- **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/silage/dekalb/dekalb-dkc45-74rib-silage
- **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best)

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## Positioning

DKC45-74RIB Brand Blend is a 95 RM product that can deliver great yield potential with broad adaptation and versatility across soil types and crop rotations. This product has a very attractive canopy with wide leaves, good staygreen, and consistent ear placement down the row.

## Strengths & management

- Broadly adapted product with utilization from east to west with great yield potential
- Very strong emergence package as an option for early planting
- Strong disease tolerance package including Northern Corn Leaf Blight, Anthracnose Stalk Rot, and Goss’s Wilt
- Solid agronomic package including good root and stalk strength and very good greensnap tolerance
- Medium-tall plant height with balanced, medium ear placement has shown good kernel depth, test weight, tip fill, and husk cover
- Semi-flex ear type that has shown good performance at medium populations
- Has shown very good stress tolerance

## Management

| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| VALUE ADDED TRAIT | SSRIB |
| RELATIVE MATURITY | 95 |
| GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1260 |
| GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2400 |
| PLANTING RATE | Medium |
| SILAGE PROVEN | No |
| NEW PRODUCT | NO |
| VARIETY | 01090003 |

## Plant Description

| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| COB COLOR | Red |
| KERNEL CAP COLOR | Yellow |
| KERNEL ROW | 16 |

## Growth

| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| EMERGENCE | 2 |
| SEEDLING GROWTH | 2 |
| ROOT STRENGTH | 3 |
| STALK STRENGTH | 2 |
| DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 2 |
| GREENSNAP | 2 |
| PLANT HEIGHT | Med Tall |
| EAR PLACEMENT | Medium |

## Harvest

| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| STAYGREEN | 2 |
| HARVEST APPEARANCE | 2 |
| DRYDOWN | 2 |
| TEST WEIGHT | 3 |

## Diseases

| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | 4 |
| ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 2 |
| GOSS'S WILT | 4 |

## Herbicide

| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY | A |
| SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY | A |
| ISOXAZOLES SENSITIVITY - PRE-EMERGENCE | A |

## Silage Characteristics

| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| NDFD 24 HR | 3 |
| NDFD 30 HR | 4 |
| % OF STARCH | 3 |
| IVSD7HR | 3 |
| SILAGE YIELD | 2 |
| MILK PER TON | 4 |
| MILK PER ACRE | 3 |

## Regional seed-guide listings

- **Northeast Colorado and Western Nebraska** — agronomist: Dustin Schmer