Crop variety performance
35 varieties. 15 regions. Honest reviews.
Performance reviews for crop varieties built around what farmers actually ask: does it yield in my climate, is it worth the seed cost, what are the failure modes. Pulled from university trial data where available, with mandatory regional strengths and weaknesses on every entry — and a "verify with extension" link on every page.
Variety performance is local. Trial results from a different region don't transfer. We summarize the directional signal — the actual decision lives with your extension service.
Browse by crop
Pick your crop.
Each crop page lists every reviewed variety with its trait package, GMO status, and primary use.
Browse by region
Pick your ag region.
Variety performance follows climate and soil, not state lines.
New England
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire + 2
Cool, humid continental climate with cold winters and short to moderate growing seasons. Forage and short-season grain are dominant; row-crop choices are constrained by season length.
Mid-Atlantic North
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Humid continental transitioning to humid subtropical at the southern edge. Moderate season length supports a broad range of row crops, vegetables, and forages.
Mid-Atlantic South
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
Humid subtropical with mild winters and long, warm summers. Coastal Plain soils are sandy; Piedmont soils are clay-heavy; mountain soils are shallow and stony.
Upper Southeast
North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas
Humid subtropical with hot, humid summers and mild winters. Long growing season supports double-cropping winter wheat into soybeans across most of the region.
Deep South
Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina
Humid subtropical with very long growing seasons, hot summers, and short mild winters. Heat tolerance and disease resistance dominate variety selection.
Gulf Coast / Florida
Florida, Louisiana
Humid subtropical to tropical. Year-round growing season in southern Florida; long warm season elsewhere. Nematode pressure and humidity-driven disease dominate.
Corn Belt North
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota + 1
Humid continental with cold winters, short-to-moderate growing seasons, and high summer temperature swings. RM matching is the dominant variety decision.
Corn Belt Core
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
Humid continental with the highest-productivity row-crop soils in the United States. Long-enough season for full-RM corn (108–115) and MG 2.5–3.8 soybeans.
Corn Belt South
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska
Transition climate from humid East to semi-arid West. Western parts depend on irrigation; eastern parts are dryland. Drought tolerance is a primary variety selection criterion.
Southern Plains
Oklahoma, Texas (Northern High Plains)
Semi-arid to humid subtropical transition. Hot, dry summers; mild winters. Wheat-fallow and grain sorghum systems dominate; irrigated corn in the High Plains.
Texas
Texas (Central, South, East)
Climate spans humid East Texas, semi-arid Central, and arid South Texas. No single variety profile fits the state — sub-region selection is essential.
Northern Rockies
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming
Cold, semi-arid with very short growing seasons in valleys. Spring wheat, malting barley, alfalfa, and dryland small-grain rotations dominate.
Southern Rockies
Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona
Semi-arid to arid with high elevation cooling. Irrigated agriculture dominates; dryland production is limited to short-season grain in moister pockets.
Pacific Northwest
Washington, Oregon
Maritime west of the Cascades; semi-arid east of the Cascades. Soft white wheat dominates the Palouse; specialty crops dominate west-side valleys.
California
California
Mediterranean climate with dry summers and wet winters. Highly diverse — from Central Valley row crops to coastal vegetables and desert irrigated alfalfa.
Editorial standards
How we review varieties.
- Mandatory weaknesses on every variety. Strengths alone are marketing. Every review names regional weaknesses too.
- Trial-verified yield where available. Where a university trial has tested a variety in a region, we cite the trial. Where there's no trial, the entry is flagged "insufficient data" or "company-reported".
- Every page links to extension. Current-year variety trial reports live with the land-grant university. We never become the source of record — we point at it.
- Food-plot ratings separate from commercial. Hunting food plots have different success criteria (palatability, persistence, establishment) than commercial yield. We rate both.
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