January Hybrid of the Month
Jan 17, 2025
Mike Tufte
Seed Specialist
It’s 2025, and we want to start the year off with a BANG! In the corn world, you’d be hard pressed to find a better bang for your buck than the one and only DKC66-06RIB, our January Hybrid of the Month.
Alex Fynaardt is a fourth-generation farmer. He purchased his first farm in 2015, but he’s lived his life working the ground that his father and grandfathers have put their blood, sweat and tears into. This drove him to Iowa State where he acquired an ag degree. After college, he accepted a position with Key Cooperative, where he has been an agronomist for nearly 10 years. I guess you could say Alex knows what it takes to keep the farm operating at its full potential, so you can trust him when he says DKC66-06RIB is a hybrid everyone should have on their farm.
Dekalb has a phenomenal hybrid in DKC65-95VT2Pro. It has been king of the jungle in central Iowa. But then they introduced us to a new line of Trecepta. Trecepta is a VT2Pro with an additional trait for above ground protection. This new trait platform brought us an 116-day hybrid that became the stronger, faster and taller younger brother of DKC65-95. DKC66-06 was born, and it has flourished. The only way to consistently out-yield it is to move to 118-120RM. Pair these two together, and you have the ultimate combination for your acres.
“DKC66-06 is a hybrid that brings us versatility across soil types and yield environments. When planting, we don’t have to be quite as picky on its placement," said Alex. "Obviously, we prefer to keep any hybrid that offers to bring us top-end yield on our better acres, but sometimes we find ourselves in a situation that forces us to place it on a lower CSR farm. I don’t worry about that as much with this hybrid.”
This is a hybrid that we like to plant in the middle of the pack. It has strong emergence, but we find other hybrids like the cool soils a little bit better. On the other end, we don’t necessarily want it planted last. It is a full, 116-day hybrid that likes to utilize the entire growing season, packing on that test weight. It will perform best at stands near 34-36,000.
Late season, DKC66-06 is known for its nice grain quality and test weight. It’s a little on the slower side as far as dry-down goes. This is one of the reasons why we would like to keep it in your mid-plant class. It will limit northern movement, but it does fit our footprint well. The yield it brings is worth it, though, even in the north.
To recap: Dekalb has brought us an 116-day Trecepta hybrid that gives us strong yield potential across multiple soil types. Alongside the bushels, you can expect excellent test weight. It also likes having additional management such as fertility and fungicides. If we feed it, it will reward us with heavy bushels. This product is the real deal!
Our Key Cooperative agronomists would love to speak with you about which hybrids would perform best on your acres. Give us a call. It's our mission to get you the best yields possible, after all, we are your Essential Business Partner!
Seed Specialist
DKC66-06RIB
It’s 2025, and we want to start the year off with a BANG! In the corn world, you’d be hard pressed to find a better bang for your buck than the one and only DKC66-06RIB, our January Hybrid of the Month.Alex Fynaardt is a fourth-generation farmer. He purchased his first farm in 2015, but he’s lived his life working the ground that his father and grandfathers have put their blood, sweat and tears into. This drove him to Iowa State where he acquired an ag degree. After college, he accepted a position with Key Cooperative, where he has been an agronomist for nearly 10 years. I guess you could say Alex knows what it takes to keep the farm operating at its full potential, so you can trust him when he says DKC66-06RIB is a hybrid everyone should have on their farm.
Dekalb has a phenomenal hybrid in DKC65-95VT2Pro. It has been king of the jungle in central Iowa. But then they introduced us to a new line of Trecepta. Trecepta is a VT2Pro with an additional trait for above ground protection. This new trait platform brought us an 116-day hybrid that became the stronger, faster and taller younger brother of DKC65-95. DKC66-06 was born, and it has flourished. The only way to consistently out-yield it is to move to 118-120RM. Pair these two together, and you have the ultimate combination for your acres.
“DKC66-06 is a hybrid that brings us versatility across soil types and yield environments. When planting, we don’t have to be quite as picky on its placement," said Alex. "Obviously, we prefer to keep any hybrid that offers to bring us top-end yield on our better acres, but sometimes we find ourselves in a situation that forces us to place it on a lower CSR farm. I don’t worry about that as much with this hybrid.”
This is a hybrid that we like to plant in the middle of the pack. It has strong emergence, but we find other hybrids like the cool soils a little bit better. On the other end, we don’t necessarily want it planted last. It is a full, 116-day hybrid that likes to utilize the entire growing season, packing on that test weight. It will perform best at stands near 34-36,000.
"The seedling vigor is phenomenal, generating stronger roots and stalks. This plant will get a little taller (with a med-high ear placement), so we definitely like that it anchors itself well, and has strong legs! DKC66-06 is an attractive plant that checks all the boxes."
To take it one step further, Alex likes to add a split application of nitrogen and a fungicide. DKC66-06 has a high response rate to both fertility and fungicides. Not only are we arming this plant with the weapons it needs to pack on the yield, but we are also protecting the plant from Southern Rust and Goss’s wilt, which seem to be about the only watchouts.Late season, DKC66-06 is known for its nice grain quality and test weight. It’s a little on the slower side as far as dry-down goes. This is one of the reasons why we would like to keep it in your mid-plant class. It will limit northern movement, but it does fit our footprint well. The yield it brings is worth it, though, even in the north.
To recap: Dekalb has brought us an 116-day Trecepta hybrid that gives us strong yield potential across multiple soil types. Alongside the bushels, you can expect excellent test weight. It also likes having additional management such as fertility and fungicides. If we feed it, it will reward us with heavy bushels. This product is the real deal!
Our Key Cooperative agronomists would love to speak with you about which hybrids would perform best on your acres. Give us a call. It's our mission to get you the best yields possible, after all, we are your Essential Business Partner!