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Consider short-season corn varieties after May 25th
May 22, 2017, 14:08 PM
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An extension agent says it’s about time to plant a shorter season corn variety. Monroe County, Wisconsin agent Bill Halfman tells Brownfield it’s almost too late for normal varieties to mature in time. “It’s kind of our general rule of thumb that if we were unable to get the corn planted somewhere around the 20th, the 25th of May, then we need to be looking at a shorter-season hybrid.”
Halfman says the right corn variety depends on what farmers plan to use it for.
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