Three new Roundup Ready® hybrids, one stacked with YieldGard®, ten new conventional hybrids, and one new Clearfield* hybrid, are among Great Lakes Hybrids' (GLH) 26 new product introductions for 1999-2000. In addition, the company is introducing twelve new soybean lines, 10 Roundup Ready® and two STS lines.

"We have some exciting proprietary genetics," said GLH President Mike Stephenson. "Technology is allowing us to produce better, and better plants. It's an very powerful line-up."

CORN

According to GLH Corn Product Manager Frank Hardimon, 6211 (112 days) and 6113 (111 days) are two of the company's most promising new products.

"6113 is one of the best central and southern hybrids. It looks great, with good plant intactness and very good yield potential. It's very strong in central and southern Ohio, central Illinois, central Indiana, and into Iowa." Hardimon said.

"6211 works well in these same areas, but will move farther South into Kentucky. It has excellent staygreen, as well as great disease resistance, including a natural resistance to gray leaf spot."

Here is Great Lakes Hybrids' new corn line-up for 1999-2000:

4231 - 92 days
· Early flowering
· Excellent plant health and late season plant intactness
· Excellent yield to maturity rating
· Husk flares for rapid drydown
· Very good test weight
· Great standability

4492 - 94 days
· Exceptional late season plant health and intactness
· Consistent performance
· Excellent yield performance
· Excellent heat and drought stress tolerance
· Fast drydown
· Great standability

4648 - 96 days
· Great yield potential
· Flowers early for maturity
· Excellent root strength and very good stalks for excellent harvest
standability
· Husk flares at maturity for fast drydown
· Adapts well to all soil types
· Medium-tall plant with mid-placed ear
· Very good heat and drought stress tolerance

4701RR- 97 days
· Roundup Ready® corn hybrid resistant to over-the-top application of
Roundup Ultra® herbicide
· Consistent top yield
· Great heat and drought stress tolerance
· Great stalks and strong roots
· Fast drydown
· Stable across environments
· Fast emergence

5571 - 105 days
· Excellent yield to moisture ratio
· Rapid emergence
· Flowers early for maturity
· Very good staygreen
· Medium-loose husk at maturity
· Solid standability
· Very high quality silage
· Very good heat and drought stress tolerance
· 18 rows of deep, long kernels

5701RR - 107 days
· Roundup Ready® corn hybrid resistant to over-the-top application of
Roundup Ultra® herbicide
· Excellent yield for maturity
· Fast drydown
· 16-18 rows of kernels
· Good stalks and roots
· Works well on variable soil types

5758 - 107 days
· Slender cob with deep kernels
· Excellent plant vigor
· Very good stalk strength
· Fast rate of drydown
· Upright leaf type hybrid
· Excellent silage potential
· Very good drought and heat stress tolerance

5780- 107 days
· Stable, consistent performance at high populations and high fertility
· Uniform, medium-short plants
· Very good tolerance to gray leaf sot
· Strong emergence for no-till and corn-on-corn
· Very good yielder for zones 5 and 6
· 18-20 rows of deep kernels

5901BtRR - 109 days
· YieldGard® gene resistance to European Corn Borer
· Roundup Ready® corn hybrid resistant to over-the-top application of
Roundup Ultra® herbicide
· Great yield and agronomics
· Good stress and heat tolerance
· Good tolerance to leaf & stalk diseases
· Fast drydown

5910 - 109 days
· Excellent yield to moisture ratio
· Excellent test weight
· Very good staygreen and late season plant intactness
· Strong stalks
· Best at high populations
· Very good leaf and stalk health
· Good husk coverage, loosens at maturity for rapid drydown

6113 - 111 days
· Excellent high yield potential
· Excellent yield to moisture ratio
· Excellent roots with solid stalks
· Semi-loose husks produce fast drydown
· Very good choice for silage
· Strong tolerance to heat and drought stress
· Rapid emergence

6211- 112 days
· Outstanding plant health
· Excellent stalks with good roots
· Superior fall appearance and intactness
· Very good test weight
· Consistent high yield
· Performs well under high populations
· Semi-loose husks for fast drydown
· Very good tonnage and quality for silage

6317IZT - 113 days
· Great Lakes Hybrids' popular 6317 with the added resistance to
Imidazolinone
herbicides using the Clearfield* technology
· Very good drought stress tolerance
· Consistent high yield across environments
· Very good leaf and stalk health
· Great emergence-use for no-till
· Fast drydown
· Excellent staygreen and good plant intactness

6584 - 115 days
· Excellent disease tolerance
· Performs well on all soil types
· Excellent fall appearance and late season plant intactness
· Excellent stalks with solid roots
· Excellent, high test weight
· Great drought and heat stress tolerance
· Fast emergence

SOYBEANS

GLH Soybean Product Manager Mitch Ray said one of the company's most exciting new products is GL 2300. "It looks exceptional," Ray said. "It's real dark green with big leaves, and it's loaded with pods."

Farmers from northern Iowa into Minnesota, as well as those in Michigan north of Battle Creek, should look at GL 2700, Ray added.

"Anybody planting GL 2600 now will be interested in this bean," he said. "All of these brand new genetics look great-they stand well and have great disease tolerance. It just keeps getting better."

GL 1501RR - 1.5 Maturity
· A tall, tough soybean line with a great defensive package, including
very good white mold tolerance
· Very high yield for its maturity
· Holds its own under stressful conditions
· Strong tolerance to Iron Chlorosis (IDC)

GL 1902RR- 1.9 Maturity
· Great eye appeal and standability;
· A touch shorter than S19-90
· Excellent white mold tolerance (SWM)

GL 2300RR- 2.3 Maturity
· Tremendous yield potential with a super defensive package including Rps
1K gene for Phytophthora resistance, Brown Stem Rot (BSR) resistance, and
excellent Iron Chlorosis tolerance
· Up to 4" taller than GL 2600RR

GL 2409RR- 2.4 Maturity
· A 2.4 Roundup Ready® line with cyst nematode protection and excellent
yield
· Good white mold protection
· Three years of proven performance in yield testing

GL 2424STS- 2.4 Maturity
· A limited release last year, GL 242STS has a great defensive package
with the Rps 1k gene for Phytophthora, good Brown Stem Rot tolerance and
average protection against white mold

GL 2500RR - 2.5 Maturity
· A great high yield bean
· This one has good parents: GL 3141 x GL 2600RR
· Has the look of GL 2600RR, but with brown pods

GL 2700RR - 2.7 Maturity
· A very defensive but still high yielding soybean line
· Good Brown Stem Rot tolerance
· A high field tolerance to Phytophthora
· Crosses GL 2334 and GL 2600RR for an unbeatable and powerful
combination

GL 3223STS - 3.2 Maturity
· Was a limited release last year as XP8332STS
· Excellent stress tolerance
· Has the Rps 1a gene for Phytophthora protection

GL 3401RR- 3.4 Maturity
· Exceptional performance, disease package and looks
· Shows good Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) tolerance (a 2.1 rating) for a
non-cyst soybean line

GL 3801RR- 3.8 Maturity
· Big, robust plant type with an upright branching style and deep, dark
green appearance
· A tough bean, with great SDS tolerance, Rps 1k and good standability

GL 4800RR - 4.8 Maturity
· Good plant height at 43" with a bushy plant type
· Good SDS tolerance, and very good tolerance to Stem Canker
· Very good yield at the 4.8 maturity

GL 5409RR - 5.4 Maturity
· A great defensive package, plus super weed control with Roundup Ultra®
· Has an SDS resistance score of 2.0, Frogeye Leaf Spot resistance score
of 1.7, and a Stem Canker resistance score of 2.0

Great Lakes Hybrids is the largest Michigan-based seed corn supplier and is affiliated with the KWS SAAT AG in Germany, a seed-only company. With research stations in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Puerto Rico, Great Lakes Hybrids has been able to produce top-performing conventional genetics for incorporation of new transgenic traits. The company has also produced more winners per entry of any other Midwestern seed company in the National Corn Growers annual Corn Yield Contest. For the latest information or to find your local dealer, visit www.glh-seeds.com or call 1-800-257-SEED (7333).

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