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Dairyland Seed Delivers Yield in 2022 FIRST Trials

BY Dairyland Seed Agronomy Team
2023 Corn Soybeans Off Season

On December 31st, the premiere 3rd party seed testing organization in the Midwest, Farmers Independent Research of Seed Technologies (FIRST), published a report of their top performing products in 2022. Dairyland Seed products excelled in many of the maturity group reports, which we are proud to share in the links below.

FIRST’s 2022 Top 30 Corn Grain Performances (link)

Of the 76 hybrids at 104 day and under, Dairyland Seed held 4 of the top 5! DS-4219AM was #1 with an 11.2 bu/ac advantage across 10 testing regions; the highest advantage posted by a product at any maturity. DS-3550AM, DS-3727AM and DS-3900AM held the 3rd, 4th and 5th places, respectively. In the 105-110 day group, DS-5095AM and DS-4917AM finished in the top 10 out of 100 products. Additionally, four other products posted top 30 performances across these two maturity groups.

FIRST’s 2022 Top 30 Soybean Performances (link)

DSR-1505E gave us a top 10 showing in the 0.0-2.0 soybean maturity group which included 44 products. It averaged a 2.2 bu/ac advantage across 4 testing regions. Additionally, DSR-1290E, DSR-1450E and DSR-2040E each finished in the top 25.

A note about 111+ day corn and 2.1+ soybeans

FIRST tests in more than 30 regions across the Midwest and Delmarva. To be included in their overall top 30 report, corn products needed to be tested in at least 3 regions with 5 or more locations each and soybean products in 3 regions with 4 or more locations each. Our 111+ day grain products and 8 of our 10 soybean entries over 2.1 maturity did not meet these criteria, having only been entered in 2 regions. You can find excellent results from many of these products by visiting the 2022 FIRST Grain Corn Harvest Reports or 2022 FIRST Soybean Harvest Reports pages.

Brian Weller Dan Ritter Branden Furseth Mark Gibson Amanda Goffnett
Brian Weller
Western Region
507.456.3034		 Dan Ritter
Central Region
219.863.0583		 Branden Furseth
Northern Region
608.513.4265		 Mark Gibson
Eastern Region
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Eastern Region
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