Page 18—Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 29, 2000
1999 EVALUATIONS
OF NUTRITIONALLY
ENHANCED CORN
Peter Thomison
Allen Geyer
Ohio State Unversity
There are several specialty
corns being marketed for value
enhanced grain production.
These include the Top Cross,
Supercede, and NutriDense
corns.
These specialty corns were
developed with improved nutri
tional traits to enhance the feed
value of grain. Nutritionally
enhanced grains produced by
these specialty corns offer
major advantages over No. 2
yellow com because they con
tain more protein, essential
amino acids, and energy (oil)
which can help livestock feed
ers reduce reliance on costly
ingredients and supplements.
The Supercede and Nutri-
Dense corns have been intro
duced more recently, and we
undertook limited testing of
Supercede hybrids in 1998.
Unlike the Top Cross high oil
com production system which
involves the use of blends, the
Supercede and NutriDense
nutritionally enhanced corns
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are single cross hybrids. The
Supercede and NutriDense
corn hybrids have been
licensed to seed companies for
distribution and are registered
trademarks of Dow AgroSci
ences and ExSeed Genetics,
respectively.
Evaluations of nutritionally
enhanced corns in 1999 wan
conducted at the OSU-OARDC
Research Farm at Wooster in
northeast Ohio and the OSU
OARDC Northwest Branch
Research Farm near Hoytville
in northwest Ohio. Nine nutri
tionally enhanced corns includ
ing two Supercede hybrids, six
NutriDense hybrids, and a
single cross high oil com
hybrid) from five seed compa
nies were planted at each site
(Supercede and NutriDense are
trademarks of Dow AgroSci
ences and ExSeed Genetics,
respectively.) A normal (low
oil) single cross hybrid was also
included as a check.
Grain yields of the nutrition
ally enhanced com hybrids
ranged from 164 to 191 bushels
per acre at Hoytville and 119 to
141 bushels per acre at Woos
ter. At Hoytville, most of the
Supercede and NutriDense
entries produced yields that
were not significantly different
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from the normal com hybrids.
Yields of most of the Supercede
and Nutri Dense hybrids were
comparable. Differences in
yield among the specialty and
normal hybrids were not signif
icant at Wooster.
Grain produced by the Nutri-
Dense, Supercede, and single
cross high oil com was charac
terized by higher oil contort
than grain of normal com
hybrid (5.9 percent vs. 4.2 per
cent at Hoytvillc; 6.0 percent
vs. 4.2 percent at Wooster).
There were significant differ-
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21st Century
Indiana Com Growers
Association President
Michael Aylesworth testified
on behalf of NCGASept. 21
before the Commission on
21st Century Production
Agriculture.
Aylesworth is a member of
the Public Policy Action
Team, which will be charting
NCGA’s policy course into the
next century.
Com Board member Greg
Guenther also spoke on
behalf of the Illinois Com
Growers Association. The
commission is holding field
hearings around the country
to seek input regarding the
future of production agricul
ture in the United States.
Aylesworth outlined some
of the fundamental tools
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ences in grain oil content
among the nutritionally
enhanced hybrids at each loca
tion with oil levels ranging
from 5.4 percent to 6.8 percent
at both sites. Grain protein
levels of nutritionally enhanced
hybrids averaged 2.1 percen
tage points higher than die nor
mal com at Hoytville, but only
0.4 percent higher at Wooster.
At Hoytville, the nine nutri
tionally enhanced hybrids exhi
bited significantly higher grain
protein levels than the normal
com, whereas at Wooster, pro
tein levels in the nutritionally
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needed for America’s farmers
to remain profitable into the
next century. These include
expanded research; afford
able, effective crop insurance
tools; a strong global economy
and access to markets around
the world; a fair and reason
able tax system; and viable,
efficient transportation sys
tems. He also addressed a
number of emerging trends
that are changing the face of
farming, including agribusi
ness mergers and acquisi
tions, rapid advancements in
technology and biotechnolo
gy, and growing environmen
tal concerns worldwide.
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agricultural . economy *• is
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enhanced and normal com
grain were generally not signif
icantly different. At both loca
tions, there woe significant dif
ferences in grain protein among
the nutritionally enhanced com
hybrids. Starch levels in grain
averaged 3.5 percentage points
less in nutritionally enhanced
com compared to normal com.
Full results of the 1999
Nutritionally Enhanced Com
are available on the web at the
following address:
http://www.ag.ohiostate.edu/li
ocorn/NECrep99.htm
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