Weather slows down seed corn production

A production agronomist at Beck’s Hybrids says severe weather has impacted the company’s corn seed production. The severe storms that have moved through the Midwest have caused some green snap in corn at various Beck’s Hybrids locations. Darin Lucas says recent rains have been beneficial for the crop, but… “The hurricane just recently, that presented some challenges,” he says. “That’s typically when we start detasseling here. So around the 4th of July holiday is when we expect to get started. So the corn doesn’t wait on us. So we gotta get out there and get it.” He tells Brownfield workers have also had to navigate the storm damage. “We had some winds that lodged some corn, so it basically blew it over,” ...