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Too cold, too quick could be a problem for seed producers
Aug 28, 2017, 15:33 PM
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A seed company representative says this year of unusually wet and cool weather might impact next year’s seeds. Alex Renk from Renk Seeds says cold weather too soon would be a huge problem. “We’re just hoping that it gets a lot warmer and the heat to finish it off because, for seed production, we can’t let our corn freeze. If we get a frost on a corn production field, it’s done. It’s garbage to us.”
Renk says soybeans can take the cold a little better than corn.
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