DuPont Pioneer Adds Three New Sorghum Hybrids

DuPont Pioneer announced its 2015 sorghum hybrid product offerings, including the addition of three new hybrids.

These hybrids offer sorghum growers strong yield potential, improved agronomic performance, a wide range of defensive trait packages and adaptability to both irrigated and dryland acres. The new hybrids for the coming season include:

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  • Pioneer® hybrid 83P56 – a medium full-grain sorghum hybrid available in south and central Texas. The product provides improved standability with excellent root and stalk strength, in addition to above-average head exertion and a defensive trait package that fights pests such as downy mildew and sugarcane aphid.
  • Pioneer® hybrid 83P73 – a new grain sorghum hybrid with excellent yield potential, adapted for both irrigated and dryland acres in south and central Texas. It has good defensive agronomic traits and brings improved harvest standability into the current sorghum lineup.
  • Pioneer® hybrid 84P72 – provides strong yield potential and above-average stalks with acceptable root lodging resistance for its maturity, and is available in the High Plains regions of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. This hybrid has demonstrated strong drought tolerance, above-average cold emergence and good tolerance to fusarium rot.

Pioneer said it has invested significant resources in research to constantly improve sorghum hybrids in the United States and around the world. Current research projects include work on hybrids that are non- or low-tillering, precision phenotyping for reduction in stress-induced lodging, and disease management. The trials are conducted at the three regional sorghum research centers in Manhattan, Kan.; Plainview, Texas; and Taft, Texas. Each center is located in an environment where important disease, insect or climatic conditions can be evaluated. Globally, testing occurs in more than 100,000 yield plots at 60 locations in four countries.

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