The Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
The University of Georgia

2001 Soybean, Sorghum Grain and Silage, Grain Millet, and Summer Annual Forages Performance Tests
Research Report Number 676
January 2002

Evaluation of Sorghum Grain Hybrids
for Resistance to Sorghum Midge,
Late-Planted at Plains, Georgia, 2001
Company or
Brand Name
Hybrid Name
or Number
Damage
Rating1
CSC 1472 4.75
Southern States SS-800 4.50
Dyna Gro 752B 4.00
Pennington Penngrain Dr 3.75
CSC 1489 3.75
Southland 4303E 3.75
CSC 1481 3.75
Southland 4360 3.50
Southern States SS-650 3.50
Mycogen 737 3.50
CSC 3080 3.50
NK K73-J6 3.25
Pioneer 83G66 3.25
Asgrow A571 3.25
CSC 9089 3.25
Mycogen X-15708 3.25
Mycogen 697 2.75
DeKalb DKS51-90 2.75
Kaystar X-095 2.25
Asgrow Missile 2.25
Southland RS280E 2.25
DeKalb DK53 2.13
DeKalb DKS54-00 1.25
Entry Mean 3.22
LSD at 0.1 0.68
Std. Err of Mean   0.58
1.  Midge damage rating:  0 = no kernel damage to 9 = 80%+ kernel damage.
NOTE:  There was little damage from sorghum midge in the early planted trial
at Plains, Georgia.
Ratings conducted by Dr. G. D. Buntin.
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