Hans Stein, Ph.D., University of Illinois I will talk today about the nutritional value of this high oil corn from Byron Seeds that we have worked with. As you probably know, corn is called maize in most countries globally. It is a stable cereal grain used both for human and animal feeding but is made mainly for animal feeding nowadays. We do see new culture bars quite often, and as Jim pointed Continue Reading
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High Oil Corn Field Day Plot Tour
Jim Paulson, PRO Division of Byron Seeds I want to welcome everyone to our Ohio Corn Field Day. We want to try to show here, in the field, is that we have some different combinations of hybrids. Hybrids that we call side kicked with the 57H 50 Ultra. Then we also have some varied populations. Through that, we’re trying to look at what we have as some uniform management across the whole field. Continue Reading
High Oil Corn Field Day
Jim Paulson, PRO Division of Byron Seeds We’ve been working on where we’re heading, trying to develop a ByronPro Energy Edge grower plan. The whole thing is about growing a value-added crop in this oil corn to help you achieve greater profitability and sustainability. Livestock producers are one of the key components in capturing the value-added of this grain. Especially, swine producers who Continue Reading
Energy Edge High Oil Corn
A Great Solution to a Livestock Grower’s Concern by Jim Paulson, High Oil Corn Project Director High Oil Corn Brings More Nutrition Value Feed costs make up over half of the expense of raising livestock, whether that is dairy cows, pigs, chickens or other livestock. Profitability is always greatly influenced by feed cost. With the high prices for grain and protein, anything that can Continue Reading
High Oil Corn Brings More Nutrition to the Feed Bunk
High oil corn has been around for decades. It is corn that has a larger germ, which tends to have an oil and protein content higher than standard No. 2 yellow corn. Regular No. 2 yellow corn is usually in the mic 3%’s, and the high oil varieties will be over 6% oil. Newer, high oil ultra-varieties can be up to 9% oil. Byron Seed and Brown Seed have been collaborating to develop improved Continue Reading
Who, What, Why is ByronPRO?
If you have come to this website, you may have the question of: Who is ByronPRO? But to us here at ByronPRO, we ask: “What is the WHY?” Why do we get up every day? Lots of reasons! One of the main reasons for ByronPRO is to be a customer-focused seed company that works to help farms. Passion for educating others One of our values at ByronPRO is a passion for educating others. We like to Continue Reading