DKC56-15RIB BRAND BLEND
Positioning
DKC56-15RIB Brand Blend is a product that combines an excellent disease package with solid agronomics and a very good late season appearance. It can provide broad adaptability from West to East with increasing performance potential as it moves East.
Strengths & management
- Excellent foliar disease package plus good physoderma tolerance has been displayed by this product
- Has shown most compelling yield performance centered on 105 RM zone
- Hybrid can exhibit very good stalk strength
- Has shown good test weight and grain quality, food grade potential
- Can provide above average drought tolerance
- Girthy ear type that has shown to maximize yield potential at medium to higher plant populations
- Has shown good tolerance to Tar Spot
Disease Ratings
| Characteristic |
Value |
| GRAY LEAF SPOT |
4 |
| SOUTHERN RUST |
4 |
| ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT |
3 |
| GOSS'S WILT |
3 |
| NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT - RACE 1 |
3 |
Growth
| Characteristic |
Value |
| SEEDLING GROWTH |
2 |
| EMERGENCE |
2 |
| ROOT STRENGTH |
4 |
| STALK STRENGTH |
3 |
| DROUGHT TOLERANCE |
4 |
| GREENSNAP TOLERANCE |
3 |
| PLANT HEIGHT |
Med Tall |
| EAR PLACEMENT |
Medium |
Management
| Characteristic |
Value |
| GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION |
1300 |
| GDUS TO BLACK LAYER |
2650 |
| VALUE ADDED TRAIT |
TRERIB |
| RELATIVE MATURITY |
106 |
| PLANTING RATE |
Medium |
| NEW PRODUCT |
NO |
| DEKALB® DISEASE SHIELD® |
YES |
| VARIETY |
01082044 |
Harvest
| Characteristic |
Value |
| STAYGREEN |
3 |
| HARVEST APPEARANCE |
3 |
| DRYDOWN |
3 |
| TEST WEIGHT |
4 |
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 |
20 |
Regional seed-guide listings
- 2024-25 Central Kansas — agronomist: Jeff Schaef
- 2025 Southwest Nebraska Seed Guide — agronomist: John Skalsky
- 2025 SOUTHEAST & SOUTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA — agronomist: Steven Johnsen
- 2025 SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Luke Miller
- Northwest Missouri 2025 — agronomist: Jody Foutch
- 2025 Northern Indiana Seed Guide — agronomist: Jason Harmon
- 2025 Northeast Seed Guide — agronomist: Shaun Heinbaugh
- Northwest Kansas & Colorado 2025 — agronomist: David Brachtenbach