Producers must weigh genetics and trait benefits against potential yield losses when choosing between expensive and budget options.

1. Same depth. “One goal in any tillage system is for corn seedlings to emerge uniformly, preferably within 24 hours of each ...

When relentless spring rain and flooding across so much of the nation’s midsection kept farmers from planting their 2019 corn acres, it also threatened the crop of seed corn for 2020 plantings. That’s ...

Wyffels Hybrids celebrated 75 years of round trips during the 2021 growing season, from growing seed corn in designated fields to handling, processing, sorting and preparation for distribution at its ...

Mother Nature wraps every kernel of seed corn in a thin protective coat, called the pericarp. It covers the seed like skin, providing a first line of defense against soil pathogens, pests and ...

The farm community is buzzing with farmers’ new-found ability to see what their neighbors pay for the same bag of seed, thanks to new products released by Farmers Business Network and Granular. Many ...

Dr. Dan Quinn, Purdue Corn Agronomist, shared his experience with abnormal mesocotyl growth of corn seedlings in the most recent Pest & Crop Newsletter. As a young agronomist, one of the first things ...