Upper Midwest farmers looking at shorter season corn

Planting delays in the Upper Midwest are forcing some farmers to consider changing maturities.

Rick Swenson is lead agronomist for Peterson Farms Seed, an independent seed company with customers in the Dakotas and Minnesota.

He tells Brownfield most farmers in their territory didn’t turn a wheel in April because of cool, wet conditions and says with each passing day there’s more talk of switching to shorter season corn.

“We are changing a little bit right now.

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