22 Sweet Corn Varieties To Add To Your Collection
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SnACk PACk (2750)
SnACk PACk is our newest high-quality bicolor. Each kernel is jam-packed with great sweet flavor and incredible eating quality. SnACk PACk matures in 78 days and is a full-season variety complete with good husk cover and plentiful dark flags. SnACk PACk has intermediate resistance to common rust and northern corn leaf blight. Available from Abbott & Cobb Inc.
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Summer Sweet® HiGlowMS® 7401 IMP
New and improved, 7401 IMP has all the great qualities of the original 7401 such as great husk protection and excellent eating quality in addition to enhanced vigor and seed quality. This sh2 carries the new SRG® natural genetics, producing darker green plants/husks and thicker leaves. It matures in 74 days and has high resistance to maize dwarf mosaic virus. Available from Abbott & Cobb Inc.
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Summer SWeet® MultiSweet® ACX SS7403RY
One of our most popular varieties from our SSW® line, 7403RY is an early season variety with main-season performance. It boasts tender HiGlow® kernels in addition to high eating quality, creating that great sweet taste. 7403RY has high tolerance to common rust and intermediate resistance to northern and southern corn leaf blight. Available from Abbott & Cobb Inc.
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Anthem XR
Anthem XR is a new 73-day bicolor sweet corn variety with excellent yield and eating quality. Its well-filled ears are tender, sweet, and attractive. Medium-long, dark-green husks provide good protection and accentuate the above-average kernel contrast. This is a perfect variety to ship or sell roadside fresh market. Available from Clifton Seed Co.
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Ka-Ching
Ka-Ching has great health and architecture with high yield potential. It's rugged and adaptable with a large ear. The uniformity of the ears in size, placement, and maturity lends itself to machine harvesting. It has a nice package, good tip fill, husk protection, and eating quality. It also has intermediate resistance to common rust, Stewart’s wilt, and northern corn leaf blight. Available from Crookham Co.
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Journey
Journey has excellent contrast between its yellow and white kernels and features a dark, protective husk. The taste and bite of these kernels is exceptional. The plant is upright and healthy and is noted for its dark-green color. It features intermediate/moderate resistance to common rust (RP1-D), Stewart’s wilt, maize dwarf mosaic, and northern corn leaf blight. Available from Crookham Co.
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Pay Dirt
Pay Dirt now features increased vigor and emergence, better seed quality, a better disease package with the added protection from the new rust strain, improved ear placement and husk protection, and is one of the best eating synergistics on the market. It features high/standard resistance to common rust, and intermediate resistance to Stewart’s wilt. Available from Crookham Co.
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Profit
Profit is a grower-friendly variety with its seed quality and yield. It presents itself very well for the consumer with large ears for the season, with nice flags and good husk protection and tip fill. It brings a better eating quality to the table for the synergistic series. It features intermediate resistance to common rust, Stewart's wilt, and northern corn leaf blight. Available from Crookham Co.
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Silver Duchess
Silver Duchess is a consistent producer. This large, bright-white ear comes from a rugged plant with great adaptability. This high-yielding, grower-friendly variety features good tip fill, a nice husk package, and good eating quality. It features intermediate resistance to common rust, Stewart’s wilt, and northern corn leaf blight. Available from Crookham Co.
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Rainier
Rainier is a beautiful bicolor super sweet (shrunken-2) variety targeted for the fresh market. Rainer has great yields with excellent eating quality and matures in a short 73 days. Available from Harris Moran.
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Mirage
Mirage matures in 78 days and is a white synergistic SE that has high yield potential of refined 8-inch ears that have superb sweetness and tenderness. Ears snap off the 7-foot clean plants easily and have an attractive husk package that offers good tip cover and dark-green flags. Available from Harris Seeds.
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Satisfaction
Satisfaction is an improved 277A-type. Their tenderness and sweetness are nearly identical, but Satisfaction provides improved vigor, uniformity, yield potential, standabilty, husk appearance, and husk protection in addition to common rust resistance. This new bicolor supersweet has a relative maturity of 76 days. Available from Rispens Seeds Inc.
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SV9014SB
SV9014SB offers dual modes of action for control of above-ground insects and corn rootworm larvae protection with tolerance to Roundup WeatherMAX® and Roundup PowerMAX®. SV9014SB is a 76-day bicolor synergistic with exceptional eating quality and a strong plant with an excellent disease package, including common rust resistance. Available from Rispens Seeds Inc.
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Sweet Surprise
This 75-day bicolor Super-Sweet has become an industry standard by continuing to provide outstanding and consistent performance. Our growers regularly comment on the uniformity, excellent husk protection, and high yields. With a strong plant, beautiful husk appearance, and outstanding eating quality, it works well for fresh market stands or wholesale shipping. Available from Rispens Seeds Inc.
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SV9010SA
SV9010SA is an 81-day Performance Series™ hybrid that provides excellent eating quality. In addition, it offers dual modes of action of above- and below-ground insect management and tolerance to Roundup® herbicide. Available from Rupp Seeds Inc.
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Xtra Tender 2472
New in 2014. Xtra Tender 2472 from IFS provides 8.5 by 1.6 inch ears with medium dark-green husks. This rust resistant, 72-day bicolor super sweet hybrid offers excellent eating quality. Available from Rupp Seeds Inc.
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Hercules
Hercules is an excellent full season variety for shipping, generating strong yields. This sweet corn has strong plant vigor, making it well adapted for late summer, fall, and Southern winter production. It matures in 84 days. Available from Seedway.
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Utopia
Utopia is one to try for those growers looking for large ear size in a bicolor synergistic. This variety makes an 8- to 8.5- inch girthy ear and 18- to 20- row count in size. Utopia is a strong grower for both early and lat plantings. Customers will appreciate its tender and sweet flavor. It matures in 77 days. Available from Seedway.
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Summer Sweet ® Multiglow ® 7002R
This sweet corn offers superior eating quality! Exceptional kernel color contrast with great ear shape, husk protection, tip fill, and flags are some of its attributes. It is an early season sweet corn for any program. Available from Siegers Seed Co.
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SV9014SB (1273)
SV9014SB (1273) is a synergistic main-season variety with a classy ear, high eating quality, and below-ground protection for corn rootworm. It has proven to have dual modes of action for insect protection against European corn borer, corn earworm, and fall armyworm, and weed control benefits of glyphosate agricultural herbicides. Available from Siegers Seed Co.
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Awesome XR
This outstanding Rp-G rust-tolerant version of Awesome with the same good husk cover and great yield potential matures in 76 days. This strong, single-ear plant also has good Stewart's wilt and Southern Corn Leaf Blight tolerances and long, dark-green flag leaves. Well-filled ears are very easy to snap. Nice bicolor contrast. No tillers. Great taste. Available from Stokes Seeds, Inc.
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Battalion
- Bicolor with similar plant and ear to Garrison but with improved eating quality and husk protection
- Maintains ear size and tip fill during fall and winter seasons
- High resistance to northern corn leaf blight and common rust
- Available from Syngenta
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SnACk PACk (2750)
Summer Sweet® HiGlowMS® 7401 IMP
Summer SWeet® MultiSweet® ACX SS7403RY
Anthem XR
Ka-Ching
Journey
Pay Dirt
Profit
Silver Duchess
Rainier
Mirage
Satisfaction
SV9014SB
Sweet Surprise
SV9010SA
Xtra Tender 2472
Hercules
Utopia
Summer Sweet ® Multiglow ® 7002R
SV9014SB (1273)
Awesome XR
Battalion
Scroll through the slideshow for details on 22 sweet corn varieties from the nation’s leading seed breeders and distributors.
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Alexander is a former associate editor with American Vegetable Grower® and currently a contributing writer in Denver, CO. See all author stories here.