Fill the Information Gap

摘要

Understanding hybrid characteristics will help ready you for variable-rate practices.When you pour a bag of premium-quality seed corn into your planter, you're looking at a hybrid with the genetic potential to produce upward of 500 bu. per acre. So whyis it the annual U.S. corn crop averages only 175 bu. per acre?That question is one Farm Journal Field Agronomists Ken Ferrie and Missy Bauer, as part of the Farm Journal Test Plots program, have invested years of field research and thousands of hours into answering.