Stauffer Seeds
will offer five new hybrids for 2007 with new VecTran™
Technology, according to Mark Gruhn, Corn Product Manager
for the company. VT Triple hybrids are available in limited
release for the 2007 growing season.
Gruhn
said Stauffer Seeds will offer the new technology to growers
in five hybrids with relative maturities ranging from 96
days to 117 days. “We want growers across our trade
territory to have the opportunity to try these products in
their fields,” he remarked.
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2414BWR (VT) RM96
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2415BWR (VT) RM97
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2704BWR (VT) RM111
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2721BWR (VT) RM114
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2816BWR (VT) RM117
VT Triple
hybrids use new technology to insert multiple traits into
the corn plant. The VT Triple hybrids contain a combination
of YieldGard® Rootworm corn with Roundup Ready® 2 technology
combined through breeding with YieldGard® Corn Borer.
YieldGard
VTTM products provide greater consistency in performance,
improved insect protection, and higher yield potential.
VecTranTM Technology is a more precise
agrobacterium-mediated insertion process for producing
products that deliver stacked-trait hybrids. This delivery
method is cleaner and more natural insertion process as
compared to a gene gun.
“Stauffer
Seeds is proud to be among the few companies offering this
new technology to their customers for planting in 2007,”
Gruhn commented. “We will continue to research and promote
new technologies and new germplasm that is right for our
customers. Our mission is to give our customers the best
opportunity to earn a living we can.”
Stauffer Seeds headquarters is located in Carroll, Iowa,
with sales from Texas to North Dakota, Illinois to Colorado.
YieldGard VT™, YieldGard®, Roundup Ready® and VecTran™ are
trademarks of Monsanto.
