Hefty Brand Corn 5500 105-day Hybrid Header
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GDUs to Mid-pollination: 1290
GDUs to Black Layer: 2480
Pollination for Maturity: Medium
Ear Type: Flex
Cob Color: Pink

GDUs to Mid-Pollination: 1290
GDUs to Black Layer: 2480
Pollination for Maturity: Medium
Ear Type: Flex
Cob Color: Pink

KEY STRENGTHS
Top yielder for your best ground! Excellent agronomics with strong stalks and roots. Impressive staygreen and intactness. Very good disease tolerance ratings including Goss’s. Full flex ears with girth, length, and deep kernels.

WEAKNESSES
Avoid low-yielding and drought-stressed acres.

POSITIONING
This hybrid uses the same cross as H5706. It may be a little bit of a princess, but it’s got a ton of high yield potential. Place it on high fertility ground and use a foliar fungicide at tassel time. The plant has good stalks and roots. It has excellent early emergence and staygreen throughout the year. It makes very good silage or grain corn. Use a planting-time insecticide to manage corn rootworm and other secondary insects.

AGRONOMIC & DISEASE RATINGS

H5500 Agronomic Chart

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

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

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

Luke, Iowa

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 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

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

Devon, Southeast Nebraska

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

Mark, Southeast South Dakota