It’s not too early to start thinking about 2022 and getting your seed shopping list finalized.

American Agriculturist asked top seed companies for their “top 5” new corn and soybean varieties for 2022. These are varieties geared to Northeast and mid-Atlantic farmers.

Below is a list of companies that have responded to our request for top hybrids. This is the first list, and we’ll update it as more companies reveal their top choices.

For readability, RIB stands for refuge in bag, and RM stands for relative maturity.

If you have any questions on a variety, contact your local seed dealer or email American Agriculturist at [email protected].

Corn

AgriGold

A633-14 (103-day). This hybrid is available in VT2RIB and STX. Yield, drydown and agronomics are why growers plant this hybrid with confidence. A flexible ear style with strong grain quality are an added bonus. Being widely adapted on soil and production practices allows A633-14 to fit on every farm. 

A636-16 (106-day). This hybrid is available as a VT2 and conventional product. It is a dual-purpose style hybrid with strong vigor, strong plant health, and great stalk and roots. Flexible ear style allows planting populations to match yield goals. Yield, agronomics and versatility are the strengths of A636-16.

A641-85 (111-day). This hybrid is available in the Trecepta trait package. It is designed for the most productive acres where management is high. The more you give this hybrid, the better it performs.

A643-52 (113-day). This hybrid is available as a VT2RIB and STX product. Not every acre is a cream puff, and those average-to-challenging acres need a product that can handle stress but still produce a lot of bushels when the conditions are just right. A643-52 is that consistent, go-anywhere-type genetic that provides great grain quality and agronomics.

A647-42 (117-day). This hybrid is available in the Trecepta trait package. This is the new yield leader in AgriGold’s full-season lineup. It features a girthy ear style with very deep kernels and responds to any additional type of management. The yield punch is strong enough to outyield most other hybrids with nothing extra. It is best for moderate to more productive acres, allowing it to realize its genetic potential.

Augusta Seed

A2150 (100-day). This hybrid has excellent stress tolerance and a semi-flex ear. It excels in the 175- to 200-bushel range.

A4858 (108-day). This hybrid has good ear flex, very good plant health and exceptional test weight. It does especially well in dryland situations. A4858 tends to flower early, but it has good late-season intactness.

A4759 (109-day). This is a very good dual-purpose hybrid that does well in a corn-on-corn environment. It works well on low-producing soils but likes population, so keep it at the upper end of what your ground will support. It's a consistent performer and widely adaptable across soil types.

A1259. This hybrid has big ear flex and big top-end yields. This plant needs 34,000 population or less, and likes to be harvested early for best results. It will respond to intensive management, but it can be placed on lighter soils as long as populations are kept low.

A3053. This is a plant that has good southern and eastern movement. It is a grain-only hybrid with good stalks and excellent plant health.  

Chemgro

4669D4Z (86-day). Consistent potential in a package with strong defensive traits, girthy ear style and solid test weight. It has excellent stalk strength, roots and plant health, and also features high drought tolerance with Agrisure Artesian genetics. Works in all soils and yields.

5120/5121GTA/5125V4Z (91-day). These have top-end yields and strong stress tolerance, and are adaptable to various soils and plant populations. They feature semi-flex ears on a medium tall plant with dual-purpose potential, and medium test weight grain on a semi-flex ear. They work in all soils and yield levels.

5521RRS (95-day). For silage, this variety is tall with long, full flex ears on a white cob; strong NDFD and tonnage with 25% floury endosperm kernels; and 10% to 12% higher starch digestibility than dual-purpose hybrids. Place in average-to-better soils, planted at max 30,000 or less in the 85 to 95 RM zones of Pennsylvania and New York.

5701GT (97-day). Strong yield potential with excellent eastern adaptation, excellent stalk strength, plant health and late-season intactness. It features very good grain quality with flex and girth. It has good dual-purpose potential and can move south of zone in average-to-better soils planted at moderate-to-high populations.

6029D4Z (107-day). This hybrid has strong agronomics in a new genetic package for the 95 to 105 RM. It has excellent ear flex with good grain quality and test weight, and is well-adapted to the East and varied soils and yield environments. This good dual-purpose hybrid can fit in corn on corn, and in all soils and yield levels.

Hubner

H4763RC2P (115 day). Excellent yield potential with strong agronomics.

H4744RC2P (114-day). Very good disease package and performs across most yield environments.

H09G056 (109-day). Excellent yield potential, good ear flex and girth.

H6134RCSS (96-day). Very good agronomic package with strong emergence and seedling vigor.

H6038RCSS (89-day). Strong agronomics and good emergence.

King’s Agriseeds/RedTail

RT 43T48 (93-day). A dual-purpose hybrid with flex ears, excellent leaf and stalk disease resistance and VIP 3220 EZ traits.

RT 45T09-D2 (95-day). A dual-purpose hybrid with semi-flex ears, excellent leaf and stalk disease resistance, and Duracade 5222 EZ traits.

RT 51T57 (101-day). Excellent seedling vigor and early growth. Can be used as an early hybrid in longer-season zones. It features dual-purpose performance for a wide range of environments, and 3122 EZ traits.

RT 57T85 (107-day). This variety features a robust plant with excellent silage and grain performance, and wide regional adaptation. Includes VIP 3111 traits.

RT 65T09-D1 (115-day). This is a medium-tall, robust plant with excellent emergence and plant vigor —excellent for no-till and early planting — Duracade 5122 EZ traits.

Soybeans

AgriGold

G3030XF (3.0RM). This XtendFlex-traited hybrid is a perfect combination of yield and agronomics. It has strong disease tolerance and the ability to go across just about any environment, making this a must plant.

G3451E3 (3.4RM). This Enlist E3 variety equally combines high yield with strong agronomics. It is a widely adapted medium-tall, medium bush-style soybean that provides excellent disease tolerance, stress tolerance and excellent standability.

G3490XF (3.4RM). This XtendFlex variety brings heavy podding, medium plant structure that is adaptable to all soil types. This midgroup 3 bean will bring yield and agronomics to very large acres. Excellent standability at harvest completes the package from planting until the combine shows up.

G3649E3 (3.6RM). This Enlist E3 soybean is built for all yield zones and production practices. It has excellent sudden death syndrome tolerance coupled with strong emergence, allowing this bean to be planted early to really maximize every acre. This medium-tall, bushy soybean will cover everything from stressful to high-yielding acres.

G3724XF (3.7RM). This XtendFlex-traited soybean will easily replace AgriGold’s yield-dominating 3.7 Xtend soybean. This is an offensive-style bean with beautiful harvest look. Manage the population based on the yield goal, and sit back and let this soybean do its thing.

Chemgro

C2355XF (2.3RM). This XtendFlex medium-tall plant has as a strong phytophthora package. It handles tougher soil conditions and poorly drained fields, and is a good choice for no-till and narrow rows.

C3255XF (3.2RM). This medium XtendFlex plant has very good standability, great defensive package with broad adaptation and a uniform stable line that works across soils and yields.

C3755XF (3.7RM). This XtendFlex medium-tall line has excellent standability, very strong defensive traits with high sudden death syndrome tolerance and average tolerance to frogeye leafspot.

C3655E (3.6RM). This Enlist E3 variety has new genetics in the mid III with a step change in yield performance. It is stable across stress and high-yielding soils and conditions, and is widely adapted with a significant yield advantage over older varieties.

C3855E (3.8RM). This Enlist E3 is a medium plant with excellent standability. It features sudden death syndrome tolerance with attractive gray-brown plants, good defense and adaptation to high-yielding soils.

Hubner

H29-19R2X (2.9RM). This variety has outstanding yield potential and an excellent all-around disease package.

H35-31XF (3.5RM). The variety provides excellent performance potential across a wide geography.

H44-42XF (4.4RM). This variety has strong emergence and is a tall plant with excellent standability.

H48-31XF (4.8RM). A tall plant with good standability.

H54-10XF (5.4RM). This variety is root-knot resistant, is a tall plant and has a tawney color.