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2007 Regional Summaries

12/7/07
Soybean summaries have been reposted and now include protein and oil data.

Click here for a list of all harvest reports or choose a region from the corn or soybean home pages.

Corn
South Dakota North East
Early
Full

South Dakota South East
Early
Full

Nebraska North East
Early
Full

Minnesota West Central
Early
Full

Minnesota South West
Early
Full

Minnesota South East
Early
Full

Iowa North West
Early
Full

Iowa North Central
Early
Full

Iowa North
Ultra-Early

Iowa West Central
Early
Full

Iowa East Central
Early
Full

Wisconsin
Early
Full

North Central Tri-State
Early
Full

Illinois North
Early
Full

Illinois West Central
Early
Full

Illinois East Central
Early
Full

Illinois Central
Insecticide applied

Illinois South
Early
Full


Michigan South
All season

Indiana North
Early
Full

Indiana Central
Early
Full

Indiana South
All season

Ohio North West
All season

Ohio West Central
All season

Pennsylvania Central
Early
Full

Pennsylvania South East
Early
Full

Del-Mar North
Early
Full

Soybeans
South Dakota North East

South Dakota East Central

South Dakota South East

Minnesota Central

Minnesota South Central

Minnesota South

Iowa North

Iowa North Central

Iowa South Central

Iowa South

Wisconsin South

North Central State Line

Illinois North

Illinois North Central

Illinois South Central

Illinois South

Indiana North

Indiana Central

Mid-Atlantic
Silage
Pennsylvania Central
Pennsylvania South East


Silage Harvest Reports

Richland, PA
New Bloomfield, PA
Mount Joy, PA
Hanover, PA
Nottingham, PA
Martinsburg, PA
Tyrone, PA
Greencastle, PA

Click here for a list of all harvest reports or choose a region from the corn or soybean home pages.



2007 Better Hybrids and Better Varieties

New corn regions
F.I.R.S.T. has organized two new regions this year. Iowa North (IANO) tests Ultra-Early hybrids. The region contains six sites, three from both IANW and IANC. Illinois Central (ILCE) tests hybrids that are not genetically resistant to rootworm beetles. This region is made up of six sites, three in ILWC and three in ILEC. This new region allows F.I.R.S.T. to test only rootworm resistant hybrids in ILEC and ILWC and conduct those tests without applying insecticide. These new regions help F.I.R.S.T. to answer more questions our members and subscribers are asking.

Earlier Performance Summary print dates
We will be delivering the Corn Performance Summaries with the mid-November issue of the Corn & Soybean Digest. Soybean Performance Summaries will move up to the December issue. We hope the earlier print dates will increase the value of F.I.R.S.T. performance summary information to farmers and seed companies alike.

F.I.R.S.T. 2007 Better Hybrids Harvest Reports
We will continue reporting the top 30 hybrids ranked separately by both yield and gross income. Each Corn Harvest Report will be a two-page pdf with the gross income rankings based on yield, harvest moisture, drying charge and market price.

Split-maturity tests
Our split-maturity tests have expanded again. We now cover 21 of our 25 corn regions.

F.I.R.S.T. 2007 Better Varieties Harvest Reports
We continue working with the USB to offer composition analysis for protein and oil. Look for updated final Regional Summaries that include this information to be posted here and in the December issue of the Corn & Soybean Digest.

Products tested
The number of entries in our seed corn tests is up 15% (2976 entries from 80 companies). Soybean entries are down by 5% (921) with 40 companies participating in the tests.

Look for F.I.R.S.T. Better Hybrid Harvest Reports in farm weeklies again this year as well:




F.I.R.S.T. information

Farmers Independent Research of Seed Technologies (F.I.R.S.T.) is the seed-testing program established by Agronomic Seed Consulting, Inc. (AgSCI) in 1997. Farmer members work with F.I.R.S.T. managers to generate independent seed product data.

F.I.R.S.T. plots are grown with the same crop inputs and management techniques the member uses. Each hybrid is tested three times in 4-row strips, only the center two rows are used to determine yield.

The result is real-world, independent yield information.

F.I.R.S.T. managers harvest the plots and send the data for posting online within 48 hours of the time the combine leaves the field.

Harvest Reports are free and include yield information on the top 30 corn hybrids and the top 30 soybean varieties at each location. Also included is information on moisture, lodging, soil conditions and crop management.

Once a region's harvest is complete, the data from each of the sites (six for corn regions and four for soybeans) is averaged and reported in a Regional Summary. Regional Summaries are posted on this web site as soon as they are available and include yield, grain moisture and standability averages. The Soybean Regional Summaries are updated with protien and oil content data, following completion of composition analysis.

Test results are also presented by zone in the National Performance Summaries. Data is grouped into standard zones for maturity. Each zone summary gives information on yield data from previous years and includes site information such as soil type, tillage and planting date.

F.I.R.S.T. On-Farm ResultsThe national performance summaries include information for all testing areas
and are distributed by the Corn & Soybean Digest in November (corn) and December (soybeans).


Questions about F.I.R.S.T., e-mail kevincoey at agsci.com
Questions about firstseedtests.com, e-mail lorri at agsci.com

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