Agricultural Economics Department
Cornhusker Economics
Date of this Version
4-3-2024
Document Type
Newsletter Issue
Citation
Cornhusker Economics (April 3, 2024)
Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract
This covers seed rate management for corn production. The cost of corn seed—often higher than that of fertilizer—makes seed rate management a key determinator of a farm’s corn production profitability.
In 2022, the Data Intensive Farm Management project, supported by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-NIFA and USDA-NRCS) and spearheaded by the University of Illinois, implemented over ten seed rate on-farm experiments in the United States. The findings from six of these experiments (three from Illinois and three from South Dakota) have been prepared for analysis and are discussed here.
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