Remember Dekalb T1100??? A great corn varietiy to Pick

JD Seller · Oct 14, 2014

I remember that DeKalb T1100 being one of the first "super" hybrids around here. It literally took a large market share for many years. I think I first heard of it in the mid 1970s.

Then another leading one for our soils was Pioneer's 3494 hybrid. I have shelled it with sap coming out of the still green stalk and the corn being 20% moisture. That would have been in the mid 1980s.

David G's post below got me to thinking about it.

casecollectorsc · Oct 14, 2014

Pioneer 3906 was a very good corn for a lot of years here...E SD. That was in the mid 80s.

IaGary · Oct 14, 2014

How bout Pioneer 3780 and 3541 in the late 70's to early 80's.

BIG RUH · Oct 14, 2014

Pioneer 3369A was a very good corn back in the lat 60s

billyiron · Oct 14, 2014

T-1100 ,,,wasn't that actually a Trojan no#,,,when de-cob bought them

thurlow · Oct 14, 2014

Back in the '50s, '60s, '70s, we usta grow a lot (at least for us) of corn for silage; don't remember if it was their 'silage' corn, but Funks G-711 seems to've been what we grew the most of. Don't think Funks still exists, at least under their name.

oldsarge · Oct 14, 2014

I planted either Pioneer 347 or 349 on my FFA plot in '59. Funny the silly azz things you sometimes remember when you get old. Now what were we talking about?

johnlobb · Oct 14, 2014

My uncle Pat never grew any deKalb, he was a Pioneer dealer besides farming full time for many years..

hd6gtom · Oct 14, 2014

how about Pioneer 3377 yield was great if you could get it picked off the ground. We had to buy a down corn real just to harvest 300 acres.

Mike Aylward · Oct 14, 2014

We had 3377 around here as well. It would yield but would always cannibalize itself to fill the ear. Later, the most prominent number around here was Pioneer 3394. That is, until the year of the rampant gray leaf spot. It devastated 3394. Shortly after that Pioneer abandoned their farmer/dealers for "company men". Most of my neighbors left them after that. Their way of doing business changed, and not for the better. I found out there were other brands of corn that would do as well or better. Sometimes much better. Mike

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