FIRST plot harvest at Novelty, MO, courtesy of Bill Schelp.
Too much or too little rain affected Farmers’ Independent Research of Seed Technologies (FIRST) field test plots across the Midwest.
Harvest at Novelty, MO. Photo courtesy of Bill Schelp, FIRST MSR.
While weather factors were vastly different across Midwest fields, one common theme for 2021 persisted: Yield results were often better than expected.
Photo by Courtney Love
Rob Kauffman, field manager for Farmers’ Independent Research of Seed Technologies, was about halfway through the harvest on corn seed research plots throughout Pennsylvania, and he said the yields are unlike anything he’s ever seen before.