Updates from the Field Welcome to our new information exchange platform! We hope to keep you up to date with our latest corn breeding efforts. Here’s a look at what we have been working on this fall. View our October E-Newsletter Learn more about our: September Field Day Success Harvest Updates Seed Selection for your […]
GEI Field Day 2016
SPECIALTY CORN FOR FOOD AND FEED Learn about the properties of specialty corn, and specific types of specialty corn including: high lysine corn, high carotene corn, high anthocyanin corn, waxy corn and hard endosperm corn. THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. A lunch will be served using foods associated with specialty corn. NOTE: […]
Corn Specialty Hybrids
There are different types of corn in the market: dent, flint, floury, sweet corn and popcorn. Dent corn is the most common type produced by farmers for feed and food. Number two corn is the standard for the trade; this grain has a test weight of at least 56 lbs/bushel at 15% moisture. Specialty corns […]
Field Day – Specialty Hybrid Corn for Food and Feed
Field Day – Specialty Hybrid Corn, Sept. 15, 2015 Come hear and learn from various experts in the field of specialty corn, see visual displays of products, and enjoy a field tour followed by a meal made using specialty corn hybrids. High-lysine corn High-carotenoid corn High- anthocyanin corn Floury corn Waxy corn Resistant-starch corn Speakers: […]
Bio Fortified GEI High Carotenoid Corn for Better Nutrition
Bio fortified Corn for breeding for high pro vitamin A content in corn is one aspect of specialty corn breeding carried out by Genetic Enterprises International (GEI). The general benefits of vitamin A are that it promotes normal growth, prevents eye damage that leads to blindness and prevents risk of infections. GEI 2318, a high […]
Genetic Enterprises International GEI News
Breeders have used the natural variability existing in the corn genome to develop corn hybrids with special properties for the food, feed, and industrial uses. Genetic Enterprises International is taking an integrated approach to specialty corn breeding by first developing corn hybrids that have all the agronomic traits needed for competitive performance in farmer’s fields. […]