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Pioneer: AQUAmax corn hybrids show 8% yield advantage

According to a recent news release from DuPont Pioneer, Pioneer’s Optimum AQUAmax products demonstrated a significant yield advantage in the second year of on-farm evaluations in North America during unprecedented drought conditions.

The company reports that, in more than 4,000 side-by-side comparisons with competitive products, preliminary 2012 yield data shows an advantage of more than eight percent with AQUAmax products in water-limited environments; and a nearly two percent yield advantage in favorable growing environments at locations harvested as of Sept. 27, 2012.

According to DuPont Pioneer, in more than 12,600 comparisons over the past two seasons, the AQUAmax hybrids have shown a 7.6 percent yield advantage in water-limited environments and a 2.7 percent yield advantage in favorable growing conditions.

To find out more about the 2012 harvest and the performance of AQUAmax hybrids, Brownfield visited with Darren Barker, Pioneer technical product manager in Iowa, and Chris Zwiener, a Pioneer field agronomist in northeast Nebraska.

AUDIO: Darren Barker (4:40 MP3)

AUDIO: Chris Zwiener (3:55 MP3)