Total Soil Management® Program                                   by TSM® Services, Inc. Create Your Own Fertilizer Recommendations          Go to  Agronomy-Online.com Variety Trials 2008 Introduction Test Plots Fertilizer Efficiency Nutrient Relationships Granu-Cal® Nutrient Cycles Pounds To Balance Balance Charts Micronutrients Fertilizer Budgets Nutrient Excess/Deficiency TSM® Home   TSM® started renting this field in 1997. It was in poor condition and a lot of people said it would never produce more than 100 bushels of corn per acre. That first year we averaged 119 bu/acre using the TSM® program. Now, after 12 years, this field has produced 232 bu/acre. The purpose of the 2008 corn and soybean hybrid trials is to showcase some of the main varieties produced by DeKalb® and Dyna-Gro®, and to determine the best hybrids for growing in East Central Illinois. 2008 TSM® Research Farm Corn Hybrid Variety Trial Corn Yields (bu/acre) Seed Variety Moisture Yield (bu/A)   DeKalb - RX785 17.5% 232   DeKalb - DK61-69 17.1% 230   DeKalb - DK63-42 18.4% 227   Dyna-Gro - V5383VT3 18.3% 223   Dekalb - DK64-24 17.5% 219   Dyna-Gro 57V70 17.4% 218   Dyna-Gro 57V44 16.6% 218   DeKalb - RX674 17.5% 217   Dyna-Gro 57V43 16.3% 215   Dyna-Gro - V5293VT3 18.4% 212   DeKalb - DK58-16 16.3% 198   Dyna-Gro 57V30 17.8% 191   Trial Average 217 The TSM® E budget was the fertility program used. (The various budget levels of the TSM® program are explained in the topic "Fertilizer Budgets".) Soil analysis was done by A&L Great Lakes Laboratories in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The following amounts of fertilizer were applied:     DAP - 75 lbs/A     Potash - 150 lbs/A     TSM® Micronutrients - 50 lbs/A     ESN nitrogen - 455 lbs/A (200 lbs actual nitrogen/A) Degree ExtraTM and Roundup PowerMAXTM herbicides were used at recommended rates on this field. Aztec® insecticide was applied at planting even though all these corn hybrids have corn rootworm tolerance.   2008 TSM® Research Farm Soybean Hybrid Variety Trial Soybean Yields (bu/acre) Seed Variety Moisture Yield (bu/A)   Dyna-Gro - 32C38 11.8% 74.6   Dyna-Gro - 37P37 12.0% 70.7   Dyna-Gro - 37J34 11.8% 70.6   Dyna-Gro - V31V7 12.3% 70.2   Dyna-Gro - 35Y36 11.8% 68.8   Dyna-Gro - V34N9 11.8% 67.8   Dyna-Gro - V32N8 12.0% 64.4   Dyna-Gro - 33C32 11.9% 59.6   Trial Average 68.3 2008 Corn Population Trial TSM® Research Farm, Catlin, IL Corn Yields (bu/acre) Plant Population (plants per acre) DeKalb 64-24 yield bu/A DeKalb RX785 yield bu/A Average bu/A 31,250 237 249 243 35,250 237 238 237 36,500 242 230 236 41,000 225 215 220 2008 Aztec® Trial on Corn TSM® Research Farm, Catlin, IL Corn Yields (bu/acre) Aztec® Rate per 1000 ft. row DeKalb 61-69 yield bu/A DeKalb 63-42 yield bu/A Average bu/A No Aztec® 223 241 232 3.4 oz. 228 236 232 5.0 oz. 226 246 236 6.7 oz. 255 237 246 Questions?  Call Dr. Randy Simonson:  1-800-626-3806 email:  Randy Simonson More Test Plots 2008 Corn and Soybean Variety Trial using TSM® Soil Fertility Program 2007 TSM® Soil Fertility Plots at Catlin, Illinois  Years 2006, 2005, 2004 TSM® Soil Fertility Plots at Catlin, Illinois  Years 2003, 2002, 2001 TSM® Soil Fertility Plots at Catlin, Illinois  1997-2003 Data for TSM® Plots at Traylor Fertilizer / Montgomery, Indiana  2003 Field Day at Traylor Fertilizer / Montgomery, Indiana  Pictures of MicroStart60TM Plots  (pelletized chicken manure product by Perdue AgriRecycle) Search This Site Search TSM®      Search The Web ® Back to Top Micronutrient Fact of the Day:           © TSM® Services, Inc. JavaScript Kit