Hefty Brand H4986 Corn

GDUs to Mid-Pollination: 1230
GDUs to Black Layer: 2420
Pollination for Maturity: Medium
Ear Type: Semi-Flex
Cob Color: Red

KEY STRENGTHS
“Plant Health Champ” you’ll want to grow right next to your house! Beautiful plant type that looks great all the way to harvest. Excellent yield performance and could be the best silage product at this maturity! Very strong tolerance to Goss’s wilt, tar spot, northern corn leaf blight, and gray leaf spot.

WEAKNESSES
Doesn’t have a ton of ear flex, so keep populations up.

POSITIONING
An absolutely beautiful corn hybrid with strong yields and tremendous silage potential! One of the more complete defensive packages you’ll find, which leads to excellent plant health. Keep your population on the higher side for what you plant and push the fertility, as this hybrid can make use of it. We’ve seen excellent responses to intensive management.

AGRONOMIC & DISEASE RATINGS

The higher the number, the better the performance or rating.

I first tried Hefty because of the price point. Then I put four hybrids in my competition plot with four other brands of corn. Hefty took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in my plot. That’s when I knew I was planting the real deal!

Ben, Moses Lake, Washington

I know that when I give my business to Hefty Seed Company, I can count on great yields from their products and outstanding service from their knowledgeable agronomists.

Paul, Southeast South Dakota

We have had a really good run with Hefty Corn hybrids on our farm over the last several years. In fact, they have been our top-yielding hybrids for a number of years now.

Nathan, Watertown, South Dakota

I put my Hefty corn up to my favorite Pioneer and Dekalb, and wow does it perform! I’ll keep planting Hefty!

Luke, Iowa

The emergence and yields I have gotten from my Hefty Brand Seed have been outstanding!

Mark, Southeast South Dakota

Out of everything I planted, Hefty has always been the first corn out of the ground over the last three years.

Devon, Southeast Nebraska

I plant corn for Habitat for Hunting. My ground is really tough due to flooding it each year. I switched to Hefty Corn because of how well it handles tough, dry soil.

Mike, Othellow, Washington