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Pioneer^® Hi-Bred 45H73

“We have never seen such a good plant stand. When I sprayed the crop I had to go in early because of volunteer wheat and wild oats, so the canola was barely out of the ground. But from the tractor you could see rows full. I have never seen a crop emerge and come out as nice like that. There were so many plants that the weeds just didn’t have a chance. The 45H73 was completely uniform and even where the crop was heavy it didn’t lodge at all. It was really easy to cut and harvest.”

“The 45H73 yielded about 23.5 bu/ac compared to the InVigor hybrid which yielded 20. The InVigor had more nutrients too.”

“I had a field of 5020 right across the road from this field of 45H73. By the way the field looked I was expecting closer to 20 bu/ac, but when we pulled it off the field and got closer to 30 bu/ac I was pleasantly surprised. The canola pods were filled right up and were nice and long.”

“I wanted to have something that was different than the Roundup Ready and the Liberty Link systems as far as the modes of action. I wanted to get away from using those every couple of years.”

“It flowered probably longer than the what the InVigor canola did, it branched closer to the ground, not as long of stem on the plant, more branches, a lot more pods. The pods seemed to be smaller than the InVigor, but when we went to harvest we found out that’s probably where the yield advantage comes from. We were really pleased with the yield we got out of it under the growth conditions that we had this year, and the yield monitors on the combine showed approximately 3 bushels per acre more per yield, out of 45H73 than our InVigor. When you look at the bottom line that’s where the money is made on the extra yield.”

“The Clearfield system I think has a place in our system here, especially on our real dirty fields… This test we did here was right on the 30 bushels an acre, and our 5030 was 29 and half to 30, just so close that it was almost identical, which did surprise me, because to look at both you’d say there must be a difference but we did the actual weighing at both fields and weighed it at the seeding plant, and it came out pretty well identical.”

CANTERRA^® 1651H

“It seemed to be about the same as the other crops around. Its pods were bigger, and the seed size was bigger and certainly on a per plant basis it was huge production… I would say when I was done the field the 1651 yielded exactly the same, I wouldn’t see any difference in yield at all.”

Pioneer^® 45P70

“I was actually caught off guard by one of my neighbours; he phoned me up and asked me what variety I had grown on the one field, and I didn’t know what he was getting at at first; and I told him it was the 45P70, and he thought it was doing very well and he thought it was doing much better than the varieties they were growing on their farm.”

“I think the 45P70 had one of the better yields than the rest of our crops, and I had a better time cutting it. I kind of liked the way it was standing, and the way we were able to cut it. It was shorter and went through better, and the yield was better than the rest of the crops we had.”

DEKALB^® 71-30 CL

“Clearfield really hasn’t been a huge part of our farm in the past. I tell you that after last years results we’re definitely seeding more acres in this year. We’re planning on doing a minimum of a quarter depending on how rotation works out, but up to a half-section just to see if we can get the same results as last year on the 71-30 and Clearfield in general… The potential looked absolutely amazing right from day one. The 71-30, the performance from one end to the other was excellent, right from seeding, emergence to seedling vigor to standability and yield.”