Expect more from your corn silage hybrid.

 

At Glenn Seed, we believe that the best corn silage hybrids deliver more than high grain yields to achieve optimal feed performance. Since 1985, we have been breeding and testing our silage-specific to meet the complex agronomic and nutritional requirements of the dairy and beef industries. In this time, our hybrids have become a different type of corn plant. They offer a superior balance of effective and digestible fiber, more rumen-available starch, and boast silage-specific agronomics such as high total plant yields and long harvest windows. They need less time in the silo before they can be fed and produce high quality milk and beef dependably and economically. Leafy and Floury Leafy Corn Silage Hybrids deliver value and security to dairies and feedlots through the synthesis of their unique silage qualities.

 
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One of our Floury Leafy Corn Silage Hybrid yields 30 tons per acre in Montana.

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View fullsize A most beautiful day for breeding. #makingcornsilage #makingseeds #plantbreedingisfun
View fullsize A small sample of the different tassels from our parent lines. There's such diversity! #plantbreeding #makingseeds #cornsilage #glennseed
View fullsize A big thanks to the team for another excellent pollination season in the research nurseries! Our small team of 8 has tended these fields daily for three weeks, and has completed manyp thousands of pollinations, nudging our germplasm forward through a
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View fullsize Today was photo shoot day for our new commercial inbred parent lines. We hope to add these three new beauties to our catalog for next season! #plantbreeding #makingcornsilage #glennseed #makingseeds
View fullsize This is GF17, one of our early inbred parent lines that can function as either a male or a female. In our design process, we try our best to select our lines to have a full tassel extension before pollen is shed, and to have a large shoot before sil
View fullsize First pollen. Let the games begin! #plantbreedingisfun #makingseeds #makingcornsilage #glennseed #leafycornsilage
View fullsize We've had a long dry stretch and are just finishing a second round of irrigation on our nurseries and isolation fields. We're grateful to have the option to keep the water flowing, and to keep our seed fields healthy under these extreme conditions!
View fullsize When we view mature kernels of our floury corn on a light table next to normal grain corn, we can see kernel the genetics of endosperm composition in a new light. Floury kernels appear opaque, while normal grain corn transmits light as a result of
View fullsize Take a look inside on of our floury kernels and a typical grain kernel at maturity and we can see the genetics at work. The endosperm of the floury kernel is filled with mostly floury starch, while the endosperm of the grain kernel contains a combin
View fullsize A corn breeder and his bounty. Nice job Dr. Glenn. GF16xGFL623 is a beauty! #plantbreeding #makingseeds #fullflouryleafycornsilage
View fullsize After five weeks of nursery harvest, we're finally finished! Now to polish-off the production fields and prepare for a research generation in Chile! #marathon #plantbreeding #makingseeds #teamworkmakesthedreamwork
View fullsize This is our first experimental floury white grain hybrid since Kevin started the project in 2014. The next step will be the tortilla test! #cornflour #plantbreedingisfun #tortillas #glutenfree
View fullsize Inbred parent GFL622 carries the leafy gene and the opaque-1 gene. It is a spectacular male, and female and is the backbone of our new Full Floury Leafy line-up. What a crop! #fullflouryleafycornsilage #makingseeds #plantbreeding #silagestartshere
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Getting Ready for Full Floury Leafies
Getting Ready for Full Floury Leafies

This season marks the first big wave of pre-commercial hybrid testing for a wide range of Full Floury Leafy Corn Silage Hybrids, and they’ve been a long time coming!

Floury Leafy Corn Silage Hybrids, Plant Population and Mycotoxins
Floury Leafy Corn Silage Hybrids, Plant Population and Mycotoxins

We were asked recently how our Floury Leafy Corn Silage Hybrids perform in conditions that encourage ear mold growth and whether plant population plays a role in mycotoxin resistance.

FLOURY LEAFY OR BMR
FLOURY LEAFY OR BMR

What makes the best corn silage?

When the Growin' Gets Tough, Get Leafy
When the Growin' Gets Tough, Get Leafy

During breeding, we have planned for the worst so that our products can perform at their best. Our Leafies and Floury Leafies offer growers some truly unique agronomics so that their silage crop delivers.

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Corn Silage Crop Management Affects Your Dairy's Bottom Line

On many dairies, corn silage is the most important and costly component of feed. The harvest of a single corn hybrid can make up to 60% of the feed for a herd for the entire year. The quality of this corn silage affects herd health, milk yields, the cost of feed additives and ultimately the dairy’s bottom line, so there’s a lot riding on its success.

Leafy Corn Silage Hybrids

Named after the Leafy gene that produces a distinctive plant with 8 or more leaves above the top ear, the advantages of growing and feeding a Leafy Corn Silage Hybrid begin with these extra leaves. But the benefits don’t end there.

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floury leafy corn silage hybrids

Featuring the same silage specific characteristics as Leafy Corn Silage Hybrids, but with more rumen-available starch for milk production. Starch QUALITY is the key to higher milk and meat yields!

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