Learning about Optimal Corn Seed Rate Management via On-farm Experimentation: Are Farmers Over-planting?

Taro Mieno, Jaeseok Hwang and David S. Bullock

No 413247, Cornhusker Economics from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics

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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.

Keywords: Crop; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.413247

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