National Public Radio: "There are other things that can limit yield, and planting date isn't necessarily even the most important one," says University of Missouri agronomist Brent Myers. "But it is something we have to consider. And we want to try to get that corn planted in that timely window of, say, after the first week of April to the first week in May."
At his farm in Centralia, Mo., Gary Riedel, 69, in his green baseball cap and Western-style shirt, is just itching to plant corn on 1,000 acres of his 2,300-acre......
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For Corn, Fickle Weather Makes For Uncertain Yields
Posted by National Public Radio: Abbie Fentress Swanson on April 24th, 2013
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