The Easy Way Isn’t Always The Best Way!
This is a great article on variety M11-66 and Bob Miller’s harvest middle approach to hybrid selection. In 2020 after the derecho sent up to 140mph across Iowa, other companies were abandoning their research due to down corn. However, Miller Hybrids painstakingly took the time to harvest data and finding some diamonds in those harvest middle replicated plots. See the article below by Lori Berglund in the 1/28/2022 “Corn Edition” in Farm News.