“Mycogen Seeds continues to be a leader in the sunflower industry, bringing new innovations with multiple market opportunities to growers,” says John Kalthoff, portfolio marketing leader for Mycogen Seeds. “Our four new hybrids for 2015 are available with CLEARFIELD® herbicide technology and agronomic characteristics to maximize the yield potential of every acre.”

 

New sunflower hybrids
8H810CLMD provides genetic resistance to some of the most prevalent races of downy mildew in North America. This midseason hybrid has excellent test weight and high-oleic levels. 8H810CLMD is a medium-maturing hybrid featuring CLEARFIELD herbicide technology.

 

8H570SCL is a short-stature hybrid with good roots. Featuring CLEARFIELD herbicide technology, this hybrid performs best when planted in full-season environments. It combines very good yield with great oil content to maximize income per acre.

 

8H660CL is a NuSun® hybrid with excellent yield potential. This hybrid has good resistance to sunflower rust, phomopsis stem canker and other environmental stresses. It performs best in full-season environments.

 

8H859CL is a high-oleic hybrid with excellent yield potential. With good disease resistance and test weight, this hybrid performs best when planted in full-season environments. It is available with CLEARFIELD herbicide technology.

 

Developed from leading genetics
Mycogen Seeds has one of the largest and most advanced sunflower breeding programs in the industry. Our hybrids feature the latest traits and fit multiple sunflower market segments, including NuSun, high-oleic, confection, bird food and dehulling.

 

“Mycogen Seeds focuses on the science behind sunflowers,” Kalthoff says. “Our hybrids continue to deliver high oil content and higher yield, resulting in more profit opportunities per acre.”

 

For more information about these new sunflower hybrids or other Mycogen® brand products, contact your local Mycogen Seeds dealer or sales representatives or visit www.mycogen.com.

 

About Mycogen Seeds
Mycogen Seeds is one of America’s fastest-growing seed companies, offering leading genetics in corn, soybeans, silage corn, sunflowers and canola. A retail seed company of Dow AgroSciences LLC, Mycogen Seeds maintains a robust global research and development program to bring growers high-performance genetics with the latest trait technologies. Working together, the people of Mycogen Seeds help growers find opportunity in every acre. For more information about Mycogen brand products, visit www.mycogen.com. Follow Mycogen Seeds on Facebook and YouTube.

 

About Dow AgroSciences
Dow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, is committed to discovering, developing, and bringing to market crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions for the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and had annual global sales of $7.1 billion in 2013. Learn more at www.dowagro.com. Follow Dow AgroSciences on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube or subscribe to our News Release RSS Feed.

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