A New Farm Favorite Emerges
One Pannar Hybrid Over Another

"For a year like this, I can't say enough good about Pannar 2E-409. It was by far the driest corn we harvested this year. Standability is fantastic, and we really like the higher ear height on it. It's just beautiful to combine. It also produced our highest test weights along with being our highest yielding corn. One of our fields ran about 140 bushels, which, in a year like this, was just outstanding. With our strip till management system, we need a plant with good early vigor. 2E-409 just works very well. We're very satisfied with this product and will be planting a lot more of it this spring." – Larry Skiftun, Fessenden, North Dakota

Grower Larry Skiftun of Fessenden, North Dakota raves about how Pannar 2E-409 performed in 2008. It was a year that saw harvest stretch through December and beyond in the weather-challenged country of the upper corn belt. 2E-409 even bested his 'old' preferred favorite: Pannar 2E-790. Both are 79-day hybrids.

Pannar genetics have excelled on an operation that no longer uses conventional tillage. Larry uses a combination of zone building and strip tillage to more effectively manage his soil productivity. "We've actually cut our rate of fertilizer to just about half of what we used to use," says Larry.

The impressive emergence and vigor of Pannar hybrids all play a role in making the system work on the Skiftun farm. The 2E-409 was strip-tilled into wheat stubble last year and was, in fact, some of the last that went into the ground. But, says Larry, it came out on top—yield-wise.

Soybeans, wheat, and edible beans—in addition to corn—are all part of the crop rotation. Larry says he is constantly looking ahead and planning to make it all work. That’s how 2E-409 entered the mix.

"I was looking for something new and I wanted a product that was a little taller, with a little quicker drydown," says Larry. In retrospect, he couldn't have picked a better year to make these choices. They were choices, says Larry, that were made easier by the company he keeps.

"Service means a lot to me," he says. "I am increasingly using more regional companies for all the seed I plant. Pannar breeds seed that is more suited to my area, and it just works a lot better for that reason."


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