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Farmer alters crop rotation, drainage to cut weather extreme risks

2014-02-07 21:34:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Opts out of continuous corn The combination of weather extremes and disease and insect pressure have been especially hard on continuous corn, which took a 40-bushel per acre yield hit in 2010, 2011 and 2012 compared to rotated corn. For me the answer was to go back to a 50:50 corn-bean rotation, says Gary Niemeyer. It had been 85:15. read more

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